The main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was designed with the Bird's Nest as the core concept, and of course, such a stadium became China's business card and spread all over the world.
Of course, this design concept still comes from nature, from the natural bird's nest. The bird's nest in nature is even more magical, and it shows the unique charm of natural creatures.
I believe that everyone is full of curiosity, after all, the bird's nest we can really see is very limited, but the state of the bird's nest presented by many creatures in nature is absolutely beyond our imagination, absolutely subverting our cognition, and definitely bringing us into the perfect world built by practical and artistic beauty.
Cai Jinwen, a writer and ecological painter, devoted himself to painting and writing about birds after graduation because of his love for birds and nature, and published a number of graphic books about birds. And his "Bird's Nest" is his latest illustrated book about birds, produced by Hou Lang.
In this book, the author takes us through the fascinating side of birds, and in the fact that we understand their creativity beyond our knowledge.
Of course, the nest is a fixed place built by birds in order to raise their offspring, but for the vast majority of nests, they only have a one-time function, and they are only used for one year, and birds can only repeat their hard work year after year in order to breed, showing their unique charm activities again and again.
For the more than 9,000 species of birds in nature, the nests they build are actually diverse. Of course, there are some birds that do not nest, and they will lay their eggs on some very special occasions, even in the nests of other birds, which is also part of nature.
In this book, the author also presents us with a nest built by knitting and sewing, a nest built by weaving, a nest made of soil and saliva, a nest dug out of a cave, and a nest built by carrying objects that seem to us to be beyond their capabilities.
This gives us a glimpse of some very unique types of nests, as well as the fact that nests can be built in different places, not just in the trees. Can you imagine that some birds would even build their own nests on water, isn't it incredible? It also makes us wonder if such a nest can really take on the responsibility of raising its offspring?
For us readers, it is a wonderful pleasure to observe a variety of bird's nests through this book, but if you can go into nature, you can see the bird's nest in nature in person. So how do we find a bird's nest in nature, and how do we discover the habits of birds through a bird's nest? This is what this book presents to us.
As an illustrated popular science book, as a book created by an author who is good at words and pictures, this book not only gives us the corresponding knowledge of popular science, but more importantly, the author uses his own brush to bring us into the first scene of observing the bird's nest, so that we can experience the magic of birds up close and admire the original ability of nature. #鸟巢##科普##手绘#