Remove Dissection Remove Family Remove North America Remove Raised
article thumbnail

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.