LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...

Frank Kilburn was a professor of natural history and ornithology at the Washington State Normal School — what’s now the University of Maine at Machias — for 25 years. After he retired, in 1949, he set ...

For some people, carving the Thanksgiving turkey is a tradition and point of pride. There’s never any question whether they will do the honors when that golden centerpiece emerges from the oven. But ...

The Wendell Gilley Museum is offering two classes on Saturday, Feb. 21, in the museum’s new Haertel Classroom.

Creek Side Gallery in Leonardtown currently is showing wild bird carvings by local artists Warren and Maxine Brown.Warren first carved as a Cub Scout and, after serving in the U.S. Navy as a ...

Not too many people know that most birds of prey have somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 feathers. But Al Jordan does. In fact, the Rochester, New York, bird carver can tell you specific numbers ...

Joyce Volmut merely has to look out the windows of her in-home studio for feathered-and-beaked inspirations for the wood bird figurines she will show this weekend at the Kaw Valley Woodcarvers’ 33rd ...

Carving birds is “a great hobby,” according to John Mastrangelo, a Braintree resident for 58 years and chaplain of American Legion Post 86. “It’s a lot of work, but you end up with something nice,” ...