Dead Birds Society

The Yale Peabody Museum VZ collections:





A Passenger Pigeon, extirpated for food. You can still apparently guess at their former roosting ground by the sheer amount of guano that lays buried underneath.


the extinct Carolina Parakeet, only parrot native to eastern US - last known record in the early 20th cent.


The evasive Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the largest ever woodie in Nordamerika. And the quest continues...


This is what kiwi feathers look like - with reduced feather morphology - mainly barbs with no barbules.


My own private Kiwi!


These Ploceus Weaverbirds look so majestic in their repose more so than even King Tut!



Collared Sunbirds (Anthreptes collaris)


Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola r.)



Brilliant!