10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

What these ex-stringers have in common is that they can never recover alone…it takes a village to raise someone from a stringer into a birder. After you have collected their mistakes, dissect them. After the dissection is complete, you then unleash a tidal wave of evidence that proves their strung rarity has been misidentified.

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Dissection Arizona Birds Collecting 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

Zebra Doves are raised for singing contests in countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and may cost between 1000 and 50,000 USD depending on their singing qualities ( source ). Apparently, some Zebra Doves can be quite valuable, though presumably not the ones I saw.

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Vietnam Zebras Birds Sparrows 147