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by Barry Kent MacKay
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Accessorize your life with unique stickers from an independent artist! Our vinyl stickers are available in four different sizes and are kiss-cut to create a 1/8" border around the perimeter of the design. Each sticker has an adhesive backing with plenty of stickiness to cling to any smooth surface while still being easy to remove.
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The story of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is well known. It is believed that at one time they numbered about three billion, the... more
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Stickers should be applied to clean, smooth surfaces at room temperature.
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The story of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is well known. It is believed that at one time they numbered about three billion, the entire population confined to eastern North America. They occurred, and bred, in vast numbers. Flocks numbering in the millions were recorded up until about the first decades of the 19th century. They were slaughtered in vast numbers, and that, plus destruction of vast, contiguous oak/beech/maple forests that they preferred led to their decline, and eventual extinction. The last one known for sure died in a zoo, in 1914. In 1947 a monument to the memory of the species contained the words of Aldo Leopold: "Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons; trees still live that, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few decades hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know. There will always be pigeons in books and in museums, but these are effigies and images, dead to all hardship...
Renowned Canadian bird artist, writer, naturalist, and conservationist, Barry Kent MacKay has “always been an admirer of birds, anxious to see them, paint them, and care for them.” Barry’s biological and ecological accuracy has put him in demand for commissions, to illustrate books, scientific journals and various print and digital media. He has painted birds and other wildlife from around the world, often life size, working in oils, watercolours, and acrylics. He prefers to sell original art, and keeps prices low. “Actual, original art should be affordable for middle class buyers,” he says. “I avoid having to depend on selling reproductions so that the market does not dictate what I paint, which can often be little-known...
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