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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. He’s one of the managers of the specimen collection and loves a good dead bird mystery.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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