This was a project for school. I wasn't able to do everything I wanted because of time constraints and a few setbacks. I had to figure out a lot of stuff (including bird rigging, which was a pain).
Eventually, when I have the time, I want to revisit this project and fix some issues (e.g. animation errors, rendering/lighting problems, texture maps/bump map issues, etc.).
This can be considered an early version (until I can hopefully update it). So . . . Work in progress.

*note not historically accurate (I suppose it doesn't have to be though).
On a positive note, 8 months ago, when I first touched Maya, I wouldn't have believed I could do something like this.