Whip-Poor-Will was created for the Birds of Passage collection in 1991-1997. You can find the birds of passage on pages 68-69 in the new book "Toikka's Glass Birds".
In Finnish the bird is called Pajusotka. Paju is the Finnish word for willow. And sotka is a scaup duck. The color for Whip Poor Will was obviously in the beginning inspired by the colors of young willow.
On the other hand whip-poor-will is an existing bird species and one can also very well see resemblances to that too.
Whip-Poor-Will stayed in production for 3 decades.
The color of individual Whip-Poor-Will glass birds has varied over the years.
Here we have one with a happy tail and and multicolored filigree.
For comparison the last two pictures show this individual together with some other color variants. (A., B. and C. are for sale elsewhere on this site)
Size: 140 x 70mm
Signature: O.Toikka Nuutajärvi
Condition: Very Good
