It looks exactly like a wood pigeon to me just spot on well done .I wonder if I can suggest you might find using an angle grinder with a flap disc possibly on larger projects though it is easy after a short trial I found it so anyway. Alistair
I'd go with a dove, just bring the beak back a little. If it breaks off glue if back on. At the point you're at now, I would use a smaller knife, like maybe a very sharp pocket knife.
regards
Ed
BTW
To carve a dove, just take all the wood away that doesn't look like a dove.
Do your best, bud. My vote is for dove. If the love is for real, she'll take it as it comes. If not, it'll be "What the heck is this?!?" You'll know where to go from there.
Turns out it is a dove, it wasn't close to a chicken…
She is actually my friends Wife, I care about his family more than my family and their children (with some exceptions)...
He is very good with me, trusting me because he knows I never really had anyone in my own life, and knows how difficult it had become as the years pass. I get to visit them once and a while.
It's looking pretty good now. I'm not an ornithologist so I'll just say that it looks like a bird, you pick the species. It does need an eye though - I can't see one in the pic. If you google "how to carve bird eyes" you might find something easy to do once you wade through all the cr@p about buying glass eyes.
If carving is something you think you might get into then send me a PM. I've got a few generic carving how-to books laying around somewhere I can send you.
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