I find these bird collections disturbing.I would like to know where do you get your bird specimens. do they arrive alive and the curator has to kill them before they are sent in a drawer.?. I ordered online stiff like that?. Please someone tell me what is the procedure for collecting these birds that were once alive.
Well, there are many ways. Sometimes they get them from hunters. Sometimes people donate them after they collected the body in different ways like hunting. But typically they’re donated by private collectors with large collection of them that died naturally or hit a window and died. But typically they’re donations and died naturally.
I had the same question. But I’m not convinced with the answer. John Du Pont collected many if not most of these birds-he started the museum and it’s public knowledge what happened to him. In fact, in the book Foxcatcher by Mark Schultz who knew Du Pont says Du Pont killed birds.
These are scientific specimens. Taxidermy is made to look like the animals are alive, but scientific specimens are positioned the way they are so scientists can study them, and it's a consistent format. Many of the birds in the collection are decades old.
Super interesting
I find these bird collections disturbing.I would like to know where do you get your bird specimens. do they arrive alive and the curator has to kill them before they are sent in a drawer.?. I ordered online stiff like that?. Please someone tell me what is the procedure for collecting these birds that were once alive.
Well, there are many ways. Sometimes they get them from hunters. Sometimes people donate them after they collected the body in different ways like hunting. But typically they’re donated by private collectors with large collection of them that died naturally or hit a window and died. But typically they’re donations and died naturally.
@@USAFORBETTER Thank you so much for your reply . I feel relieved that they are donations. God bless you ♥️
I had the same question. But I’m not convinced with the answer. John Du Pont collected many if not most of these birds-he started the museum and it’s public knowledge what happened to him. In fact, in the book Foxcatcher by Mark Schultz who knew Du Pont says Du Pont killed birds.
Why are they so lifeless. Have you made them as models or are they real.
These are scientific specimens. Taxidermy is made to look like the animals are alive, but scientific specimens are positioned the way they are so scientists can study them, and it's a consistent format. Many of the birds in the collection are decades old.
Museum and collection.......man's know it