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Extinct Birds Previously Consumed By Humans
2 moas Dodo Condor Carolina Parakeets parakeet
Great Auk Ivorybilled woodpecker Group shot Parakeets  
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It's about diversity - the artist is trying to repair environmental holes by retrofitting a series of extinct birds from the recycled bones of fast food chickens.

Poultry grown for the fast food market is mass produced in the speediest, cheapest and unhealthy of conditions.

We eat them, ingesting their antibiotics, hormones and pesticides.

All pieces use mixed media and fast food poultry bones and were rebuilt from 2004-2007.

 
Not birds but also in the collection
2 moas parakeet Condor Carolina Parakeets Dodo
2 moas
Carolina Parakeets, Migratory Range Eastern US, last seen in the wild 1913. Pair 8" X 23" X 7".
 
     
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