Some thoughts on scientific collecting
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Box after box of egg. I remember looking at a single skin of a Long-legged warbler from Fiji, the only known specimen or record of its particular subspecies, the sum total of all knowledge about its kind. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. New Zealand Bitterns. Bush Wrens.
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