They are not my favourite thing as such, but I don’t understand why pigeons get such a hard time.
I am a big fan of animals having regular, human names. I think I would have to call him Paul or Rob anything too grand would seem a little ostentatious. I would keep him in a bronze cage, suspended from the ceiling above my desk where I work and write. Where would you keep him if you owned him, and what would be his name? I came across this picture online the same week that the couture shows were on in Paris there was something about his elegant plumage that made me think of the beautiful clothes we had been looking at and of old Galliano. So as we plot what phrases we'd teach him to say, Chodha christens him Paul and dreams of a trip to Iceland, as the cockatoo flies. Here at AnOther, we're fully smitten with this pink-tinted bird, especially at the news that he is likely to be an excellent mimic. For peacocks, it’s their elaborate fan of tail feathers, the entirely adorable club-winged manakin does a death defying moonwalk while the bowerbird resorts to collecting shiny trinkets such as tinfoil and shells to lure their beloved into their nest. But avian tricks aren’t simply for aggression – other birds employ elaborate courting rituals to attract their mates. It is not alone in the animal kingdom for having an unconvential defence mechanism – a dog will raise its hackles as a warning, a cobra’s head stretches out to form a fearsome hood when disturbed, and if fighting over territory, male grey catbirds will puff themselves up as far as they can, with the bird that appears the largest winning the ground. When relaxed, it is an unspectacular, flat-feathered bird, but when put under pressure, it reveals a crest of feathers in vibrant red-orange, which rise up to deter potential attackers. But this week, we’re going back to basics, as AnOther’s Lovers have fallen head over beak for this portrait of a Salmon-crested cockatoo, Loved by fashion writer Dal Chodha.Īmong the largest of the white cockatoos, the salmon-crested version hails from Indonesia. We have swooned at the way designers such as Alexander McQueen took the existing majesty of feathers and turned them into something even more extraordinary. There have been Victorian taxidermy birds, Frida’s collection of pet birds, delicately illustrated birds’ eggs and the work of Cass Bird. People have talked about their passionate ornithological tendencies, others have expressed their ornithophobia.
We’ve celebrated their plumage and their many appearances in art.
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