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. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

Dissection 209

Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

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 199

Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 199

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

Animal Rights Movement 40

Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

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. Some say that there is no right or wrong way to bird…but that is wrong. Go Birding. Bird with the stringer. Bird with them a lot.

Dissection 164

Dissection Arizona Birds Collecting 164