The art of bird taxidermy | Natural History Museum
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Watch Senior Curator Hein van Grouw as he prepares a corncrake (Crex crex) specimen for the Museum's bird collections. The art of taxidermy has become fashionable again in recent years. But it has always been scientifically useful, as Hein explains.
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The title of this video is quite misleading. The curator here is creating what's called a study skin, not a taxidermied mount. Taxidermy properly involves mounting the bird in a lifelike position, using glass eyes, and otherwise creating a bird posed as in life, and looking alive. A study skin, by contrast, involves removing all the soft tissues and visera, and stuffing the bird's body with cotton batting, etc., as he demonstrates in the video.
Taxidermy is so cool. It allows us to see that animal as if it were alive. I really like biology, and for some reason I love getting to see animals and how they eat, live, etc.
I love taxidermy so much
I feel that taxidermy and study skins are different things (although the same by definition).
Study skins want to be preserved for long periods of time.
Taxidermy is an art where you want to animal as it did in life.
Do you see the difference?
Hello mate any tips for removing blood from feathers
Mooi te zien , nog niet verleerd . S15 Steenwijk en Omg.
Night didn't even wear gloves.
XxZombie_BunnyxX -w- since their skin is so thin, it's easier to make mistakes when wearing gloves. I used to wear them but don't anymore a once it makes the process easier. Beginners should. But once you learn the ropes it isn't needed. Especially on birds that aren't prone to carrying diseases and if you wash your hands afterwards.
Can somebody tell me.. Taking the guts out of a bird and sewing it back up is enough to preserve it? How does that work?!
Won't the brain and other parts make the entire thing stinky and rotten?
This pretty cool what they do with dead birds
How cool, the AMNH or Field Museum never showed videos about the taxidermy process on birds.
No gloves? As long as he doesn't lick his fingers after he's done, I'm fine. 😅
What happens to all the blood? I see a lot of these videos, but never any blood. Do you drain them first?
JulieGriffin you don't have to drain them at all. They are usually frozen and defrosted again. But even fresh, after death blood usually goes to the organs. You won't see much if you cut correctly above muscle.
Miss Mir awesome! Thanks so much!
Also, blood thickens up when an animal (or human) dies. That's also the reason why there isn't much blood when you do an autopsy
Let me guess, That guy is Dutch
He's dutch isnt he?
Kelly-sophie Mekel from hearing his horrible accent in English, I guess so. It's irritating the hell out of me, and I'm Dutch myself.
This didn't show any tanning treatment for preserving the skin. I'd call this a very brisk overview
Isn’t this more of study skin rather than true taxidermy though?
There are two kinds of taxidermy. The one I'm guessing you're more familiar with is display taxidermy, which includes hunting trophies and what you usually see in museum display cases. The one here is specimen taxidermy, which is supposed to stay in a drawer so scientists can look at it.
Poor birbs
all that energy should be for the living
slinkyjett it teaches the living, to help protect the living. Seems fine to me
pretty sure if you did that to a living bird it wont stay living for long
He needs to take a razor and fix his eyebrow
or maybe you need to stop being a little bitch and putting your own superficial insecurities onto others
his eyebrows are fine. and whether you are female or male, it is your own personal choice if you want to shave your body hair or not.
this dude is educated, an eloquent speaker, has a career he's passionate about, married, and definitely a kinder heart than yours.
he's been fine the 40-50 something years he's lived so far, pretty sure he cant last the latter half of his life without plucking his them like a sissy 21st century tween.
The word "art" hardly applies.
do you kill the birds?
caroline diaz no
😣😣😣😣
All of these preserved animals ( not just birds ) died from natural causes, or collisions with vehicles and other causes. The bodies are found by people and are given to the museums. The more exotic animals are from zoos and also died of natural causes.
Is this bird died natural or human again killl this animals?🤔🤔🤔😣😣
Tea Zidic mostly natural and my friend’s grandpa shot a deer to eat but it was nasty apparently so their friend “stuffed it”
They were found dead then brought in to be used for education.