Perching Birds
Knitting 'Perching birds' – September 2024
Recently I made a universal knitting pattern for knitting a stereotypical bird. I didn't look at facts like having a long tail or not. And therefore also not with the body proportions of different species. For determining the colors, I was inspired by a number of beautiful birds that really exist. Which one did you get from me? Scroll through the list below. Next to each photo are the name of the bird and some links to websites with more information about the species.
Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaeaThe nuthatch is primarily a resident bird. Its range covers large parts of Europe, northwestern Africa, and parts of Asia, primarily the south and southeast, extending to Japan. In Europe, the species is absent only in Ireland and Scotland. In Scandinavia, there has been a strong northward expansion in the 21st century.
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthisThe Common Kingfisher occurs across much of Europe, except most of Scandinavia and Scotland, in Asia south of Siberia to Japan and the Solomon Islands, and locally in northwest Africa. In Europe its northern border runs through southern Sweden, about the latitude of Stockholm, and southern Finland, but it has occasionally been recorded as far south-west as Iceland. In Belgium and the Netherlands it is regularly observed as a breeding and resident bird. It occasionally migrates away in winter.
Common Rosefinch
Carpodacus erythrinusThe Common Rosefinch has a wide distribution range, extending from Western Europe to Siberia, northern Mongolia, northeast China and Korea, Turkey, the Caucasus, northern Iran and Turkmenistan, eastern Kazakhstan to western China, the western Himalayas, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the central and eastern Himalayas to central and southern China.
Barn Owl
Tyto albaThis group of species is very widespread and occurs in America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
Black-and-red Broadbill
Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchosSoutheast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.
Red-faced Lovebird
Agapornis pullariusGuinea and Sierra Leone to Sudan, Congo-Kinshasa and Angola.
Mindoro Racket-tail
Prioniturus mindorensisOnly on Mindoro Island in the Philippines.
Macaroni Penguin
Eudyptes chrysolophusIslands around Antarctica, especially the Crozet Islands.
Pygmy Hanging Parrot
Loriculus exilisOnly on Sulawesi and Buton (Indonesia).
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macaoAmerican tropical rainforests, from Mexico to the Amazon rainforest of Peru and Brazil.
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Ara araraunaBolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arcticaOn the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately up to the Arctic Ocean. The largest colony lives on Iceland. They also live on the islands of Scotland and Wales, the Hebrides, in Ireland, Greenland, Novaya Zemlya, Norway, Spitsbergen and on the northeast coast of North America.
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusWith the exception of Antarctica, the Osprey is found on all continents.