HICKORY CORNERS --Join Southwest Michigan's own award-winning carver Willy McDonald for a decoy-carving demonstration at 1 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Hickory Corners.Learn about ...

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 ...

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,” ...

He's not sure what it weighs, but estimates 600 to 800 pounds -- the biggest and most important carving of his career."I feel honored," he says, "to be chosen to do this."From the rubbing, he traced ...

Some of the most widely recognized, award-winning carvers from the eastern United States will gather for an exhibition of their work at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island's Environmental Education ...

A small bird carving--the oldest instance of East Asian three-dimensional art ever discovered--is described in a study published June 10, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Zhanyang Li from ...