Hatching artist within with bird drawing. BOOKS Naturalist teaches how anybody can master skill of illustrating nature. By Sam Whiting, Reporter Aug 5, 2012.

For the last 16 months, artist Jane Kim has filled her days filling an enormous space — 40 feet high, more than 3,000 square feet — with images of birds.Her canvas is one entire wall of the ...

Back to feet: Smaller birds with shorter legs, particularly species favoring trees, hop on land. Birds with longer legs are more likely to walk. Some, like American robins, do both, depending on need.

A C.T. scan of the foot of a 99 million-year-old bird whose feathers, not visible on the scan, were preserved in amber. Credit... Lida Xing et al.

FARMINGTON — Like a Alfred Hitchcock movie, the Franklin’s gull dominated the art work submitted by students this year for the 17th annual Davis County Great Salt Lake Bird Festival art contest.