Red Bird Hues Smallprint Database of British Hills

Database of British Hills

The height of each mark indicates the overall size of the site and the width of across the trunk illustrates what proportion of each site is made up of woodland habitat

they reveal intricate weather forecasts dating back to year it was planted

Each tree represents a different country (Wales

this artist book combines bird colours with maths to find out the most common colours filling the skies

Red Bird Hues Smallprint Database of British HillsWatching the birds fly into the garden made me wonder about the spectrum of colours that paints the skies. This colour chart orders the green hues of the most common garden birds in Britain using a combination of image analysis and weighted means. The colours have been identified using scientific illustrations of male birds. The ordering takes into account the proportion of colour, prevalence of the bird and the proportion of gardens they frequented.