Rosayln moves to game birds with this volume, offering instructions for five carving projects: the male mourning dove in flight, a perched female dove, a female woodcock, her chicks, and the challenging bobwhite quail. Complete instructions with generous and beautiful illustrations take the reader through all five projects step-by-step, from carving through texturing and painting.

This is the second comprehensive wood carving manual by the successful team of Roz Daisey and Pat Kurman. Through a detailed yet concise series of carving and painting instructions, beautifully drawn illustrations and careful photography, novice as well as expert carvers are given all the information they need to complete realistic wood carvings of five different songbirds. The instructions for creating wooden replicas of the male and female Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow, Blue Jay, and American Robin provide five home seminars at your fingertips. Roz and Pat are experienced carvers and teachers who have developed systems that work for everybody every time. Their own carving achievements, abilities to illustrate and communicate, and their devotion to the bird carving art forms they create all combine here to inspire a new generation of wildfowl artist.

Live-trapping has become an important tool in the study and management of North American upland game birds. Uses of live-trapping include (1) transplanting birds to areas where there are no natural populations or where natural populations have been reduced or eradicated, (2) removing offending species from depredation areas, (3) obtaining brood stock for game farms, and (4) studying species behavior, movements, survival, etc. The object of this paper is to bring together materials on the various methods used to trap upland species.

A comprehensive look at American miniature bird carvings and the artists who made them