Birds&Eggs: Parrot Toy Kit by Hakan Gürsu

Birds & Eggs Toy Kit by Hakan Gürsu

Birds&Eggs creative toy set allow children to create various birds with gathering different stylized body pieces. Designed for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover living animals while also designing their own birds. Set consists of head, neck, body, wing, tail and feet pieces. There are 24 characteristic bird heads including duck, owl, parrot, pelican and more. Parts are interchangeable and create an option set, which in the end enables creating thousands of bird types. Children can make abstracted birds by looking at nature and bird images, or they can make their own creation of birds from their imagination. Offering a simple play, the design lets building creatures and transforming them easily. Birds&Eggs are classified according to their sizes. There are seven sizes and each bird fits into the correspondingly sized egg. Therefore children can carry birds in their eggs to play anywhere.

Source: http://www.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=25427

OboroCharms Parrots

Blue Parakeet Charm

This sweet little blue parakeet measures about 10mm tall and comes on a silver jump ring.

Where to buy: http://www.oborocharms.com/collections/accessories/products/blue-parakeet-charm

Blue Parakeet Necklace

This adorable flat backed bird charm measures about an inch long and comes on a 18 inch silver chain.

Where to buy: http://www.oborocharms.com/collections/necklaces/products/kawaii-parakeet-necklace

Kawaii Lovebird Necklace
This adorable flat backed bird charm measures about an inch long and comes on a 18 inch silver chain.
Where to buy: http://www.oborocharms.com/collections/necklaces/products/kawaii-lovebird-necklace

Lovebird Friendship Necklaces

Our adorable lovebird friendship necklaces come with two flat backed lovebirds on two silver toned chains, each holding half of a Valentines Day Heart which fits together!
Where to buy: http://www.oborocharms.com/collections/holiday/products/lovebird-friendship-necklaces

Kawaii Cockatiel Necklace

This adorable flat backed bird charm measures about an inch long and comes on a 18 inch silver chain.
Where to buy: http://www.oborocharms.com/collections/necklaces/products/kawaii-cockatiel-necklace

Parrot and Monkey

Frida Kahlo - Self-portrait with Monkey and Parrot

 

Bike Poster – parrot and monkey, 1895

Adriaen van Utrecht  - Still life with fruits, vegetables, a monkey and a parrot in a garden, 1646

 

Melchior de Hondecoeter - A parrot, a Monkey and a Dog in a Landscape

Von Dahl - still life with parrot, monkey, fruit, peahen and pelican in an exterior setting

Clara Peeters - Apples, Cherries, Apricots And Other Fruit In A Basket, With Pears, Plums, Robins, A Woodpecker, A Parrot And A Monkey Eating Nuts, On A Table

Old illustration of a monkey and a parrot in the jungle.

Created by Bocourt and Dupre, published on Merveilles de la Nature, Bailliere et fils, Paris, 1878

Caspar Netscher - Lady with a Parrot and Gentleman with a Monkey, 1664

Tobias Stranover - Still Life with a Monkey, Jay and Parrot

Willy von Plessen - Still life with monkey and parrot, 1862

Walton Ford - The du pain au lait, 2011

Walton Ford - Man of the Woods, 2011

Walton Ford - Sensations of an Infant Heart, 1999

Walton Ford - Unnatural Composure, 2011

 

Walton Ford - The Scale of Nature, 2011

 

Walton Ford - His Supremacy, 2011

Walton Ford - …Forever Afterward Chained, 2011

Monkey and Parrot Tin Mechanical Bank

Saalheimer & Strauss, Germany

Place a coin in position on top of the monkey’s tail and depress the lever. The monkey bends forward, the coin rolls down into the monkey’s hand, and the parrot opens his mouth. Release the lever, the monkey rises, tossing the coin around the track and into the parrot’s closing mouth.

Collier's magazine with Parrot and monkey on cover, 1942

Walter Potter's parrot taxidermy

Walter Potter was born in 1835 in the village of Bamber in Sussex, England. After a brief schooling, he worked in his father inn, the White Lion, and pursued taxidermy as a hobby in a workshop above the stables. Potter’s first subject was his pet canary.

By the time of his death in 1918, Potter’s museum contained approximately 10,000 of his taxidermied birds and animals.

Potter’s collection of avian subjects was particularly impressive. 

Perhaps the worse figures are part of Potter’s maniacal utopian tableau called “The Happy Family” crowded with animals including cats, dogs, owls, frogs, falcons, a parrot, a monkey, a tortoise, and a piebald rat. The animals’ face are rigid and gaunt, giving no suggestion of ever having been alive, or if they were, it was not this world that they inhabited.

Walter Potter’s maniacal utopian tableau called “The Happy Family” .

Potter’s fame actually rests on several large anthropomorphic works which depict squirrels, kittens, rats, and guinea pigs engaged in various human activities.

Source: http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/walter-potter/2006/11/3/walter-potter-1835-1918.html

Parrots in the new York Subway

The 81th Street subway stop serves the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West and West 81th Street.
As an acknowledgment of the location, the walls of the subway station at West 81th and Central Park West feature mosaics in the forms of insects, birds, reptiles and other creatures.

Parrot tile design at the 81st Street/American Museum of Natural History subway stop in October of 2010.

Source: http://nycpicoftheday.com/2010/10/12/parrots-in-the-subway/