Birds


Artwork by Gina Mikel: Crested Bird Gorget, Campephilus principalis

Crested Bird Gorget (Campephilus principalis), 2025

Crested bird gorget (Campephilus principalis) is a 2025 design by Gina with four crested heads around a turning center. Long pale bills and red crests echo Cox Mound-style Mississippian shell gorgets, often read as ivory-billed woodpeckers and linked with Tennessee and northern Alabama, about AD 1250 to 1450. The woodpecker may be extinct.