10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. 61: dissection showing upper mandible, lower mandible, and tongue, photo by Tim Birkhead, © Tim Birkhead; text © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

Dissection 219

Dissection Birds Research Europe 219

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. He’s one of the managers of the specimen collection and loves a good dead bird mystery. They’ve got it coming and going!

Bats 204

Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

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. Talk about field marks, previous records, status and distribution.

Dissection 172

Dissection Arizona Birds Collecting 172

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law.

Animal Rights Movement 40

Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40