0306: Mallee Ringneck Parrot
wingbase
WA
0307: Common Bronze-wing Pigeon wingbase
WA


0308: Black-necked Stork,
Pheasant Coucal & Rainbow Lorrikeet
Australia
0309: Mulga Parrot breast and wingbase
WA
0310: Pheasant Coucal
WA
0311: Red-tailed Black Cockatoo,
Guinea Fowl
WA/Africa
  PATTERNS & TEXTURES (Feathers)
   
     
  In a past life David was a Zookeeper at Perth Zoo, Western Australia. After working in a number of zookeeping areas he ended up working with Birds.
As cleaning entailed sweeping beneath bird perches, at certain times of the year birds would discard or moult (molt) their feathers. These were usually swept up and dumped in the bin (trash). After having mechanically dumped hundreds of these works of art I began collecting some – these
images are a small sample of what I found.

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