Conversations in Avian Art and Ornithology

A cardinal sin of a field biologist or animal trainer is to anthropomorphize their interpretations of their subject as having human emotions or personalities.  I spent my career as a biology and bird trainer trying to evaluate bird behaviors objectively, based on motivations driven by survival, like the fight or flight response, and leaving any emotions out of the equation.  It is only now that science is finding the animal kingdom, especially birds, do possess traits, behaviors and intelligence we thought previously as only human.   More than a few times I have heard people describe my ability to portray birds in a [...]