Bird Signs

An A4 folded pamphlet which explains which bird you are according to the month in which you were born.

“Star signs don’t interest birds very much as, for example, most British birds are ‘born’ between May and July which makes for pretty boring late-night conversations about star signs as all of them are either Taurus, Gemini or Cancer. They instead use a very complex system involving the time and date that an egg was laid, when it hatched and when the chick fledged. This is way too complicated to go into here (and frankly dull). What really fascinates birds, however, is the fact that humans can be born in any month of the year. Birds claim to be able to correctly identify in which month of the year any individual human was born just though careful observation of their behaviour. It was a very short step from there to them matching up the behaviour of each of the ‘12 months of human’ to 12 birds. Here I have tried to explain what it means when one bird nods at a human and says ‘blackbird’ to his mate. Clearly, this system is full of nuance, tradition and insult that I cannot hope to properly convey, and we have to remember that birds are dreadful liars anyway. I would like to add, though, may we all aspire to be wrens.”

(Please note that, regretfully, I don’t send work outside of the UK.)