Cormorant – Wooden Bird Carving

A fine hand carved and painted sculpture of a cormorant standing on a natural wooden block.

These elegant and dramatic members of the pelican family can be seen perched on posts or rocks near the cliffs where they nest.

Cormorants are excellent swimmers, plunging head first they can dive down as far as 100 feet in the pursuit of food.

Their superb fishing skills were used to great effect in China where cormorants were trained to catch fish, as seen in classical Chinese paintings of the period.

Today the UK is an internationally important wintering site for this most remarkable of sea birds.

Each bird has been skilfully hand carved by village craftsmen on the island of Bali in Indonesia.

They are produced under fair trading conditions to benefit the village community as well as the producer and have been painted using lead free paints and local replaceable softwood.

Although each cormorant follows the same design, there will be slight differences to the base due to the individual nature of the wood used.

Simple, elegant decoration beautifully realised.

Display Size:   Ø 10 x 32 cm high

Bird Size:  approx 22 cm high

Base Size:  approx  Ø 10 x 10 cm high