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Crocheted pigeon costumes for dressing them up as extinct birds

Laurel Hope Roth, a former park ranger turned artist, has spent parts of the last decade creating intricate crocheted Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons.

Each suit depicts a bird species that is now extinct, perhaps the saddest of which is the urban pigeon’s relative, the passenger pigeon:

Her work was displayed at the Smithsonian as part of a cool exhibition called The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art:

Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons (via)

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