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#95: Amazakoue
Bird number: 128 Date: December 17, 2012 Wood: Amazakoue (Guibourtia ehie) Source: Woodcraft I’ve become jaded. By any reasonable measure, this is a beautiful wood and I should be wowed by it. But I...
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#96: Mopani
Bird number: 129 Date: December 17, 2012 Wood: Mopani (Colophospermum mopane) Source: Woodcraft Mopani (also mopane) is one of the heaviest woods found in South Africa. With a specific gravity of 1.23,...
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#97: Black Palm
Bird number: 130 Date: December 17, 2012 Wood: Black Palm (Borassus flabellifer) Source: Woodcraft I was surprised at how dense this wood is. The few types of palm wood I’d ever seen were quite...
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#98: Burmese Blackwood
Bird number: 131 Date: December 18, 2012 Wood: Burmese Blackwood (Dalbergia cultrata) Source: Woodcraft Burmese Blackwood is a member of the genus Dalbergia, commonly called the Rosewoods. Two other...
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#99: Spalted Tamarind
Bird number: 132 Date: December 18, 2012 Wood: Spalted Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) Source: Woodcraft If you’ve lived for any time near the Mexican border or you like to shop in Asian markets, you’re...
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#100: Banksia Pod
Bird number: 133 Date: December 18, 2012 Wood: Banksia pod (Banksia grandis) Source: Woodcraft Banksia is a genus of about 170 flowering trees or woody shrubs native to Australia that have distinctive...
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All together now
Throughout the year I’ve spent carving these birds, people have been asking me what I’m going to do with them. I honestly had no clear idea of that when I started. At some point in the past year, Debra...
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#101: Plum
Bird number: 134 Date: October 20, 2013 Wood: Plum (Prunus) Source: Friend from California Who says that I have to stop at 100? I’ve decided that I’ll continue to add to the collection if I run across...
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#102: Bethlehem Olive
Bird number: 135 & 136 Date: October 20, 2013 Wood: Olive (Olea europaea) Source: Woodcraft store Debra and I were in the Woodcraft store last year right before Christmas, and saw that they had a...
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#103: Live Oak
Bird number: 137 Date: May 27, 2015 Wood: Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) Source: Back yard Debra and I planted two trees in memory of our fathers a few years back. Both were doing well before...
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One casualty of the COVID pandemic was my online presence. I had a disagreement with my hosting provider in 2019, which took down my site. I had some difficulty getting access to fix the problems, and...
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