A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first ...

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 ...

MENDON -- You could say Jim Podsiadlo's new business is for the birds, and you'd be right. Just remove the phrase's negative connotations and you have a creative venture that has literally taken wing.

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 ...

Wood carving is somewhat of a lost art these days, but birds were often the subject of amazingly realistic carvings. The artistic and colorful patterns of the red-naped sapsucker make it appear like a ...

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 ...

They look real, take dozens of hours to craft and will cost you if one is destined for your mantle. More than 400 people took in the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show over the weekend in Vancouver. It was ...

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 ...

Eighty-one-year-old woodcarver and naturalist Bob Spear has birds on the brain and has since he started crafting them from wood in 1938. That s when the teen-ager, then living on a Colchester farm, ...

When someone says, “That’s for the birds,” Al Burk can’t resist smiling. Most of the available space in his Sykesville home is devoted to his passion for birds — not raising them but rather carving ...

Cedar fan birds are not considered fine art, but still they require skill and artful hands. The birds carved from wood have deep roots in Europe of the past when men, traveling far from home, sat ...

STONEWALL, Man. - A new exhibit at the Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre features a rare collection of "exquisite and unique" bird carvings, says the conservation organization. The 22 life-size ...