Yay! That’s a sweet job. Excellent shape and colouring. I love kingfishers.
Sorry you got your name wrong. 
That turned out pretty cool!
Thanks for posting!
Hi,
This is my first WIP. After fooling around for along time I thought I might actually make something. Not sure what material to make the feathers or the beak. I’m haveing a stupid newbie problem too. Some times when I switch to a new tool and change the material it also changes the material of an object allready droped that had the previous material. Am I missing something or is this a bug? ZBrush is taking over my brain. 
Scene and bird look fabulous!!! I love it.
I ‘bake’ a lot. But I have to admit… I don’t really know why either. I am pretty new as well. Baking helps… I experience ‘massive’ challenges when I ADD materials to the material selection. Then everything needs to be baked down as it seems. I suspect (no evidence) that there is an internal numeric ID for a material and that’s assigned to the pixols or geometry when you assign the material. If something is allocating that slot and is a different material it seems that everything linked to it changes as well. PITA !!. Baking is a brutal aproach as it prevents subsequent changes… Let’s see if some other member has a clearer vision… Look for the material collections here in the forum. There are more than 150 materials hidden in the ‘pile’.
Cheers
LemonNado