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  • About
    • Biography
    • Stories
    • Events/Exhibits
  • New
    • Colorful Wildlife Encounters
    • Migration - Circle Bird Paintings
    • Urban Wildlife
    • Life on the Rock
    • Icebergs
    • Spirits of the Forest
  • Natural Disasters
    • Natural Disasters
    • Volcano paintings
    • Wildfires
    • Extreme Weather: Storms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes & Lightning
  • Wildlife Pastels
    • Life on the Rock
    • Adirondacks
    • Africa
    • Arizona Desert
    • Aquatic life
    • Birds
  • Paintings
    • Series >
      • Migration - Circle Bird Paintings
      • Flying Color - Bird Paintings
      • Ocean Life
      • River Fish
      • Wildlife Paintings
      • Abstract
      • Illustrating Literature
      • The Energy of White
      • Abstract Landscapes
    • Printmaking >
      • New prints
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Migration

birds know no borders

Most birds migrate. Some, like the bar-tailed godwit, migrate 7,000 miles from their summer to winter home. And others, like certain types of grouse, will just move 300 meters down hill from their nesting spots to winter foraging areas.

puffin art
Walkin' Puffin, 6" Sold
cedar waxwing bird art
Perched - Cedar Waxwing, 8" Sold
redheaded woodpecker art
Taking it in - Red-headed woodpecker, 9" Available in the store
Those that do migrate great distances overlook goofy borders and country lines that we've put in place. Instead, they follow ancient routes that have suited their needs for millions of years.

If you follow a ruby-throated hummingbird on its migration route, you'll see the different worlds it sees and how it can link those living in the north with those living in the south, under the appreciation of birding. A ruby-throated hummingbird that creates a nest in your backyard in New York during the summer, may be the same hummingbird someone watches at their feeder in the winter months of Guatemala - if one thing could bring the world together, birds would be it.

Bird-watching is appreciated globally. As of 2016, over 45 million Americans go birding, according to Fish and Wildlife. An estimated 20 million in the UK actively feed their backyard visitors. Though only about 3 million UK residents actively go bird watching - even so, at least 50 million people in just 2 countries take an interest in our feathered friends regularly. And in recent months with the pandemic, this number could have only increased as so many were looking for something to enjoy during their stay at home lock downs.

Some will travel miles and miles to get a glimpse of a not-so common Atlantic puffin (though they are abundant where you can find them...), others will be satisfied to fulfill their birding needs in their own backyard watching their regular visitors. But however one will enjoy, birding is ultimately a past time that anyone - of any age, culture, community, etc. - can participate in. And, whether we realize it or not, bird watching brings us together globally 
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your backyard birds are someone else's backyard birds too.

It's not just the act of bird watching that can bring us together - the birds themselves do too.  Unlike people, birds know no borders. They will cross mountains, rivers, oceans and all the invisible lines we've created to divide ourselves, to live their best life in the environment that fits them during that season. They connect two unknown divided worlds together by calling both places home. Two divided cultures based on geography become one comforting place - home. And as we all know, it's always nice to circle back home. 

This series looks at migratory birds of all distances, birds that live in your backyard, and birds that become a travel itinerary item, and how important it is to recognize, cherish, and take care of our feathered neighbors together  - before we lose another 3 billion.
common loon painting
Flashing - Common Loon. 18"
Available in the store
bluebird painting
Little Bluebird fly - Eastern Bluebird, 10"Sold
American robin painting
That Bird of Mine - American Robin. 7.75"
Available in the store
yellow-headed blackbird painting
A Bright Spot - Yellow-Headed Blackbird. 7.75"
Available in the store
sandhill crane bird painting
Stop over - Sandhill Crane. 6"
Available in the store
Roseate Spoonbill painting
The wanderer - Roseate Spoonbill. 6"
Available in the store
Killdeer painting
Kee-dee, Kee-dee. 6"
Available in the store
red winged blackbird painting
Summer Fragrant - Red Sold
common yellow throat painting
Yellow Bandit, 8"
Available in the store
sandhill crane painting
Just After Sunset - Flying Sandhill Cranes, 18”, mixed media
Available in the store
Razorbill painting
At the edge - Razorbill. 10"
Available in the store
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Birds know no borders

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