As the distressed cries of crows blare from a tape player, a group of hunters in training hunkers in the brush, waiting for the varmint to swoop. Before them, a perched, plastic owl gazes over about a ...

The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys. By Julia Halperin The painter Anne Buckwalter, 38, says she doesn’t like clutter, but she makes an exception for bird ...