You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!

Because they know what it will mean for them if

they do

Heather flowers along the mountain stream - Isle of Skye, Scotland, August 2025

photo by: nature-hiking

Woman Shooting Cherry Blossoms (2019) — Yinka Shonibare CBE

A large-scale sculpture commissioned for the reopening of the Fukuoka Art Museum in spring 2019

Shonibare’s first artwork on a Japanese theme; now part of the museum’s permanent collection

Depicts a headless female figure firing cherry blossoms from a rifle — a striking contrast of violence and beauty

The globe replacing the head erases individual identity, referencing colonialism and globalization

Central theme: the empowerment of women against persistent global gender inequality