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If you love birds, we are fortunate to have artists in our community who represent birds in their paintings and sculptures.
Birds are often associated with themes of renewal and rebirth symbolizing the cyclical nature of life. For centuries, and most notably in Renaissance art, birds represented resurrection of the soul.
In Mexican art, and based on an Aztec prophecy, the flag features an Eagle devouring a snake from a cactus plant. Peacocks are a common motif in Persian art symbolizing eternal life. There is no shortage of depictions of birds over as many cultures.
If you are inspired by and find that birds add a happy factor to your life, we urge you to seek out our community and Hill Country artists and their bird-inspired artworks.
As a family activity, we invite you to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, details provided below. If you are inspired to create as well as count, by all means scan and attach your family drawings, paintings and sculptures to [email protected]. We would love to share with our followers.
Each February for four days the world comes together for the love of birds. This year, Feb. 14-17, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society invite you to spend time in your favorite places watching and counting as many birds as you can find, and reporting them to these organizations.
Observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations.
Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds, and to display results in near real time. Birds Canada joined the project in 2009 to provide an expanded capacity to support participation in Canada.
In 2013 GBBC became a global project when they began entering data into “eBird,” the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizenscience project.
Each year participation grows as more people of all ages around the world spend their weekend counting, learning about and celebrating birds. Abbreviated 2024 results are: 7,920 species were identified; 210 countries participated; and 384,416 eBird checklists were submitted. For details www.birdcount.org.
The GBBC is an inter-organizational effort between Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society and Birds Canada. They work together to bring the joys of birdwatching to our communities.
You can count one bird or hundreds; participating is easy and fun for all ages. Let birds bring you closer to nature and to each other by spending four days in February counting and reporting bird sightings.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and visit our website often: www.hccarts. org; send inquiries to president@ hccarts.org. HCCArts develops and enriches an environment that supports and promotes awareness, appreciation, education and access to all the arts.
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