This one is for the birds!

It’s a big deal for Kim because it’s a big date: the 10th anniversary of her monumental installation Wall of Birds, a 2,500 square-foot mural that NPR called a “masterpiece,” and Audubon dubbed an “avian Vatican.” It is the only painting in the world to show all 243 modern bird families life-size.

To celebrate, Kim and 15 of her artist friends have mounted an exceptional collection of avian themed paintings, including a couple of scaled down panels from her original mural.

In a set of sketches for the original “Birds” wall you can see pentimenti, ghosts of painstaking corrections she made in graphite to ensure detailed accuracy. To capture all the world’s bird families actual size, superimposed on a world map, and joined by a series on bird evolution, she used methods classical and modern over 2 1/2 years. Other artists declined to even try it; Kim jumped at the opportunity.

It’s a long flight from her older “Migration Murals” that won reader appreciation from a National Geographic contest to a lucky connection with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which commissioned Wall of Birds.

Kim laughs, “I appreciate the universe. We’re homies.”

Wall of Birds is available in book form, and this painting is only one of perhaps 50 nature murals Kim has created.

Think of Kim as a modern Audubon, the quintessential biological illustrator of American bird life. He painted them dead, while Kim’s and her colleagues’ paintings are full of life.

Forget Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” These paintings will delight you with color, pattern and setting. They soar and they sing. From the colorful to the sublime, some abstract, most quite realistic — you’ll see birds on a wire literally, birds in flight, birds in the bush.

“Pilgrim” by George Boorujy, is a bird’s-eye view of a bird’s eye. “Night Passages: Bunting” by Kirsten Furlong, a multimedia three dimensional construction, had me humming the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Ash Ferlito’s “Desert Paintbrush + Sagebrush Sparrow,” a metal on muslin fantasy screams wings in flight. Lynette Cook’s two of birds perched on wires in front of San Francisco buildings are reminiscent of Hopper or Hockney scenes. Danza Davis’ “Ripple: Pollination” recalls gentle memories of Victorian wall prints. Woodworker Spencer Tinkham’s “Ruby-throated Hummingbird” is a masterful macro of feathers in their iridescent glory. Of course, Jane Kim’s “Passeriformes, Not Passeriformes” panels bring you face to beak with her monumental opus.

Kim also teaches classes in creating art from wildlife. Stay in touch with her at inkdwell.com.

“I want you to feel more connected to nature, to feel joy and be fascinated,” Kim said.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. This one is worth your visit.

Fly on over to the show for the artist reception on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 4-6 p.m. And ask to see the shoes — yes, shoes.

Andra Norris Gallery, 311 Lorton Ave., Burlingame. For more information vist andranorrisgallery.com or call (650) 235-9775. You can create too: If you’re feeling inspired to create bird art, here are two local opportunities. The SF Bay Bird Observatory, sfbbo.org, hosts bird walks suitable for photography. The San Mateo County Bird Alliance has one Oct. 26, https://bit.ly/3IsmRnl. CuriOdyssey, curiodyssey.org/animals/our-animals/birds, has a 4,000-square-foot walk-in aviary with over two dozen local bird species that you can visit with your museum admission, sketching permitted. For free you can try to capture the image of the wildfowl (not the birds) all over the Foster City lagoons who don’t go anywhere, including the infamous geese, who do “go” everywhere, so watch your step!

Bart Charlow, an author and consultant, has been sketching all his life and painting for over 45 years, had a professional photography business, and leads plein air painting groups. Come along as he shares his insights about the local art scene, and bring your sketchbook. His art and story are at: bartsart.weebly.com.