Creating Florida native birds from natural materials? A perfect way to celebrate Florida's biodiversity! Audubon sits down with Florida artist Beth Lane Williams to talk about her work with pine needles.

Q. You use unique materials in your artwork - how did you start this artistic practice?

The Seminole and Calusa Indians of Southwest Florida started their creative brainstorming using pine needles to make their baskets.  Their basketry techniques are timeless. I use an old technique called the “coil” method and have also adapted some new procedures of my own to get the desired results.  I picked up this pine needle infatuation after reading about their history and knowing that I have the very same slash pine trees in my yard.