Professor Oiva Toikka's glass birds represent his brilliant approach to life and work. The birds are unique eye-catchers and messengers of Oiva Toikka's life wisdom and radiate curiosity, boundless imagination, and, above all, playfulness. The story of the birds started in the 1970s in Nuutajärvi and over the years the flock of unique, peculiar, and beautiful glass birds has continuously expanded. The deep ultramarine little tern is a happy little bird whose smooth and well-proportioned form has been created in the skilled hands of Iittala's glassblowers.