Huia Birds New Zealand bird - Hand Painted Silk Scarf Kiwi outside art Overseas bird collectors and museums

Overseas bird collectors and museums bought mounted specimens and tail feathers

All the designs are original art works and each one is hand painted by Kay Satherley of Satherley Silks NZ

The SilverEyes or WaxEyes (Tauhou) are little NZ native birds often seen in small flocks on shrubs and plants foraging for aphids etc

New Zealand Kereru

Huia Birds New Zealand bird - Hand Painted Silk Scarf Kiwi outside art Overseas bird collectors and museumsA hand painted silk scarf of Huia birds NZ natives , this was a commissioned work, are now extinct The iconic huia was the largest of the five New Zealand wattlebird species. It was a striking large songbird, mainly black with long white tipped tail feathers. Predation by introduced mammals and, to a lesser extent, human hunting, was the likely cause of huia extinction. Large areas of native forest containing huia were logged or burned in the 1800s to