{"id":13525,"date":"2012-05-25T05:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13525"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:39:51","slug":"creative-prompt-158-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/creative-prompt-158-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #158: Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Bird<\/a> (Muppet)<\/p>\n

eagle<\/p>\n

Bird People of China<\/p>\n

toucan<\/p>\n

bird cages<\/p>\n

penguin<\/p>\n

bird feeder<\/p>\n

Bird of Paradise<\/p>\n

Avian<\/p>\n

Birdman of Alcatraz<\/p>\n

flips the bird<\/p>\n

owl<\/p>\n

Birdie (golf)<\/p>\n

\u201cHold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird<\/strong> that cannot fly.<\/a>\u201d<\/span> Langston Hughes<\/p>\n

Tweety Bird<\/p>\n

cockatoo<\/p>\n

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott<\/p>\n

flamingo<\/p>\n

The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock<\/p>\n

cockatiel (Penfold for Brian)<\/p>\n

Larry Bird<\/p>\n

sparrow<\/p>\n

Official US State Birds<\/a> (is there a similar site for other countries, provinces?)<\/p>\n

Bird is the Word<\/p>\n

Andrew Zuckerman bird photography<\/p>\n

bird banding<\/p>\n

the birds and the bees<\/p>\n

Angry Birds<\/p>\n

birdsong<\/p>\n

Bird City, Kansas<\/p>\n

Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a> (check out their wonderful heron nest web cam)<\/p>\n

Alston & Bird LLP<\/p>\n

American Bird Conservancy<\/p>\n

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Bird-in-Hand<\/a>, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

herons<\/p>\n

Parrots of Telegraph Hill<\/p>\n

hummingbird<\/p>\n

Great Backyard Bird Count<\/p>\n

parakeet (Penfold for Julie)<\/p>\n

Make your response simple. It doesn\u2019t need to be a masterpiece. Take 5 minutes. Just respond and create a creative habit. Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.<\/p>\n

The Creative Prompt Project has a Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs or websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.<\/p>\n

Nota bene<\/strong><\/em>: Daisy Yellow is having an Index Card a Day Challenge<\/a> in June & July. I think this project fits in well with the Creative Prompt Project and I agree with Tammy that an index card is a great canvas size.<\/p>\n

Definition:<\/a>Birds<\/strong> (class<\/a> Aves<\/strong>) are feathered<\/a>, winged<\/a>, bipedal<\/a>, endothermic<\/a> (warm-blooded<\/a>), egg-laying<\/a>, vertebrate<\/a> animals. With around 10,000 living species, they are the most speciose<\/a> class of tetrapod<\/a> vertebrates. All present species belong to the subclass Neornithes<\/a>, and inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant<\/a> birds range in size from the 5\u00a0cm (2\u00a0in) Bee Hummingbird<\/a> to the 2.75\u00a0m (9\u00a0ft) Ostrich<\/a>. The fossil record<\/a> indicates that birds emerged within theropod<\/a> dinosaurs<\/a> during the Jurassic<\/a> period, around 160 million years (Ma) ago. Paleontologists<\/a> regard birds as the only clade<\/a> of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous\u2013Paleogene extinction event<\/a> 65.5 Ma ago.<\/p>\n

Modern birds<\/a> are characterised<\/a> by feathers<\/a>, a beak<\/a> with no teeth<\/a>, the laying<\/a> of hard-shelled<\/a> eggs, a high metabolic<\/a> rate, a four-chambered heart<\/a>, and a lightweight but strong skeleton<\/a>. All living species of birds have wings\u2014the now extinct flightless moa<\/a> of New Zealand<\/a> were the only exception. Wings are evolved forelimbs, and most bird species can fly<\/a>. Flightless birds include ratites<\/a>, penguins<\/a>, and a number of diverse endemic<\/a> island species. Birds also have unique digestive<\/a> and respiratory systems<\/a> that are highly adapted for flight. Some birds, especially corvids<\/a> and parrots<\/a>, are among the most intelligent animal species; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools<\/a>, and many social species exhibit cultural transmission of knowledge across generations.<\/p>\n

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations<\/a>, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs<\/a>, and participate in social behaviours, including cooperative breeding<\/a> and hunting, flocking<\/a>, and mobbing<\/a> of predators. The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous<\/a>, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life. Other species have polygynous<\/a> (“many females”) or, rarely, polyandrous<\/a> (“many males”) breeding systems. Eggs are usually laid in a nest and incubated<\/a> by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching.<\/p>\n

Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming. Some species, particularly songbirds<\/a> and parrots<\/a>, are popular as pets. Other uses include the harvesting of guano<\/a> (droppings) for use as a fertiliser<\/a>. Birds figure prominently<\/a> in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music. About 120\u2013130 species have become extinct<\/a> as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Currently about 1,200 species of birds are threatened with extinction by human activities, though efforts are underway to protect<\/a> them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Bird (Muppet) eagle Bird People of China toucan bird cages penguin bird feeder Bird of Paradise Avian Birdman of Alcatraz flips the bird owl Birdie (golf) \u201cHold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.\u201d Langston Hughes Tweety Bird cockatoo Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott … Continue reading “Creative Prompt #158: Bird”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-13525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}