kingfisher feathers. Over the course of 2,500 years, the Chinese fashion industry plucked an inconceivable number of birds from the forests of Asia. In an art form called tian tsui, or dotting ...

The Guam kingfisher is making a comeback. Once extinct in the wild, this little bird is being re-introduced with high hopes ...

"A room adorned with, by any measure, a masterpiece of naturalistic art ... Several of the birds depicted were rock pigeons (Columba livia), along with a pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), a red ...