About the product
Meet Ribbon, the Canopy Crown. He is a curl-crested aracari, and he is real. His kind lives in the lowland rainforest of the south-western Amazon, in Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. He is about 42 to 46 centimeters (17 to 18 inches) long from bill tip to tail tip. That is about the length of a school ruler and a half. His back and rump are red. His wings are dark green. His belly is yellow, with one wide red band across it. A ring of bare sky-blue skin circles each eye. His bill has an orange top edge and a cream lower half. Toucan bills are built like a light foam inside. Most of what he eats is fruit, and figs are on the list. He travels in a flock of up to twelve. At night up to five grown-ups and their young can sleep together in one old woodpecker hole. His call is a loud rising eeee-yak. On top of his head sits a crown of shiny black curls, like small pieces of glossy plastic. No other aracari has them, and Birds of the World says no other bird does. Scientists have not worked out what the curls are for. Aracaris take a berry by the tip of the bill and flip it up with a jerk of the head. Then they catch it at the back of the throat and swallow. His family calls it FLIP-CATCH BEAK.
This is the Keepsake version from the Fenekie Explorer Club, a small team exploring the natural world together, one wild animal every week: Ribbon exactly as the storybook paints him, brush marks and all, on a blank chosen for how it feels and where it comes from. 1% of everything we make goes back to the wild. Ribbon perches three-quarter on a curved fig branch with two leaves, a purple fig at the tip of his bill and his chest toward you. The tee is midweight and garment-dyed, and it softens with every wash.
What you get
• Comfort Colors youth tee, 100% combed ring-spun cotton, soft-washed and garment-dyed, midweight, classic fit
• Printed direct to garment across the chest; wash inside out, cool
• Youth sizes XS to XL, in Granite, Blue Jean, Butter, Chalky Mint or Terracotta; see the size chart
Printed to order and posted from the nearest US print partner. Postage is shown at checkout and charged once for this listing.
Ribbon's videos, bedtime story and storybook live at fenekie.com.