Alphabirds Poster: Alphabet Poster for Bird Lovers

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Poster Dimensions: 21 x 31.5 inches

alphabet of A alphabet of D alphabet of E alphabet of F alphabet of G alphabet of H alphabet of I alphabet of J alphabet of K alphabet of L alphabet of M alphabet of N alphabet of O alphabet of P alphabet of Q alphabet of R alphabet of S alphabet of T alphabet of U alphabet of V alphabet of W alphabet of X alphabet of Y alphabet of Z alphabet of B alphabet of C

This poster was printed on museum quality fine poster paper, using professional, full color offset printing. This poster was printed in 1996. The original artwork was painted on one piece of watercolor paper.

There is protective varnish on each bird alphabet letter.

This poster is a perfect gift for a baby shower, birthday, and for anybody in all ages who love birds and nature. It is educational as well as artistically attractive. Ideal for a school classroom or student's room.

For a limited time, your poster will come with the artist's signature with no extra cost to you.

This poster is unframed and unmatted, and comes rolled up and will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard shipping tube. Remember you are paying for a high quality poster. These posters lay flat and have never been rolled. They will only be rolled at the time of purchase and usually only spend at the most 3-5 days in the Shipping Tube during shipment.

About the artist, Yong Chen:

In China, Yong Chen grew up in a village with a strong cultural and artistic tradition. He have been drawing and painting nearly every day since he was four years old.

When he was in college, he explored different forms of art. He was a violinist, a song-writer and a passionate young poet. Yong found that, whether the final product was a poem, a song or a picture, the creative process was similar. Each was a means for him to express the emotions he feels through the relationship of people to nature.

Yong Chen is a children's book author and illustrator. His published children's books include: A Gift, The Shofar Must Go On, Finding Joy, Miz Fannie Mae's Fine New Easter Hat, Starfish Summer, Swimming with Sharks, his watercolor illustrations also appeared in Spider Magazine, Cricket Magazine and AppleSeeds Magazine. Yong Chen is also a watercolor portrait painter and full-time college art professor.

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Watercolor painting of bird alphabet - Q is for Albatros

Bird Alphabet Q is for Albatros

Albatros Birds - of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains show they once occurred there too and occasional vagrants turn up. Albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses (genus Diomedea) have the largest wingspans of any extant birds. The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but there is disagreement over the number of species.

Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. They feed on squid, fish and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing or diving. Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together. Pair bonds between males and females form over several years, with the use of ritualised dances, and will last for the life of the pair. A breeding season can take over a year from laying to fledging, with a single egg laid in each breeding attempt.

Of the 21 species of albatrosses recognised by the IUCN, 19 are threatened with extinction. Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to harvesting for feathers, but today the albatrosses are threatened by introduced species such as rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks and nesting adults; by pollution; by a serious decline in fish stocks in many regions largely due to overfishing; and by long-line fishing. Long-line fisheries pose the greatest threat, as feeding birds are attracted to the bait and become hooked on the lines and drown. Governments, conservation organisations and fishermen are all working towards reducing this by-catch.