For some people, carving the Thanksgiving turkey is a tradition and point of pride. There’s never any question whether they will do the honors when that golden centerpiece emerges from the oven. But ...

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 ...

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.

A wood carving of a baby blue bird earned wildlife artist Kenny Vermillion Best of Show at the Raven Art Gallery’s Fall Show, which is open through the end of October. Recently Indiana Gov. Mitch ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

North Dakota's state bird and the state's many shorebirds will be celebrated May 13 when Audubon National Wildlife Refuge again marks International Migratory Bird Day. The refuge is offering an art ...