Why Over 600,000 Bird Specimens Are Preserved At The Smithsonian | Colossal Collections

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the world, housing over 600,000 specimens, from ducks to eagles to peacocks. The collection was created over 200 years ago and is still being added to today. But why does the museum still need more and more specimens? Research and wildlife management, notably reducing the amount of bird strikes.
We went to the Smithsonian to see how just one specimen gets added to the skins collection, one of the most detailed processes in the department that creates a record of historic birds to be used for generations to come.
0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Acquisition
1:36 - Cleaning and Preparation
5:38 - Research and Collections
6:06 - Bird Strike Research
7:51 - Black Vulture Wing Research
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@OKjoey86 Год назад

I wonder how many extinct species are represented at the museum? That would be a pretty fascinating exhibit.

@yessumyecrad Год назад

They likely have a lot of birds that, sadly will never be observed alive again. I spotted Carolina Parakeets at 9:01. It's pretty amazing to see a specimen of a bird that's been extinct since way before we existed.

@Coolkid99880 Год назад

@0 O o 0 O o 0 O o 0 O o 0 due literally between 200-2000 different species go extinct every year from climate change, human intervention, or even evolution in some cases. So you might wanna rethink your reply

@buckethead133 Год назад

@@Coolkid99880 name 10?

@doublemosasaur5091 Год назад

such a dumb question lol, there are thousands of mesozoic and cenozoic animal museums, where fossils of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, extinct mammals are shown. Idk if youve ever been to a museum.

@Coolkid99880 Год назад

@@buckethead133 1.baiji dolphin 2.Splendid poison frog 3.northern white rhinoceros 4.Pyrenean ibex 5.western black rhinoceros 6.Bachman’s Warbler 7.Little Mariana Fruit Bat 8.Kaua'i akialoa 9.San Marcos Gambusia 10.Southern Acornshell Mussel You were saying?

@Rai_S82 Год назад

There is so much going on behind the scenes that most of us wouldn't even think of. This is fascinating!

@rizdalegend Год назад

Like this married couple has never had sex?

@poonplugdoonbug Год назад

Like covid 19 being manufactured?

@yourfriend4970 Год назад

Like Meghan Markle is a robot?

@kenetickups6146 Год назад

@@poonplugdoonbug Pics or it didn't happen

@TheImmilky Год назад

@@poonplugdoonbug stfu I'm currently having it and suffering and you people still preach this tinfoil hat shit? Maybe if you get infected you would get some humility! It's as real as any other sickness and virus!

@teddybellbri Год назад

Am I the only one who thinks this isn’t that strange? They’re doing a multitude of things to save these bird species and educate the general public. I may be a little biased because I study wildlife conservation…but still

@spacewalker7520 Год назад

Yeah, you are the only one. ;) How can you find it completely normal to see multiple corpses stored side by side like pencils? Are you a serial killer? lol

@TravisRamesar Год назад

Yes,this is weird/strange but,it makes sense so you are correct.

@teddybellbri Год назад

@@spacewalker7520 By that logic, graveyards are psychopathic too. 😬 Keeping these species preserved can be beneficial for the future of their species by studying the way they died, their DNA, size, etc.

@shamrockewe822 Год назад

@@teddybellbri I don't think it's weird but I wouldn't compare it to a graveyard, graveyards aren't for preserving, studying or storing biological data so it's not a relevant reference.

@JW-dc8hk Год назад

I don’t think it’s strange at all, we’re trying to attempt to save our ecological history so all good here 👌👍💯

@SICresinwrks Год назад

This is wild, never thought about how much stuff they actually had, especially animals! Its cool to see how and why they keep them

@Smokie1523 Год назад

Ive seen people butcher birds, but never unbutcher... neat! There are SO many different incredibly fascinating things at the Smithsonian, you should do a series on all of it!.. or as much as you can..

@tiromandal6399 Год назад

Damn I never knew they had to remove everything but the skin! Makes total sense but can't imagine how excruciatingly difficult it would be to do it without any damage!

@rinber13 9 месяцев назад

This reminded me of The Feather Thief book. It's about a guy who robbed a natural history museum for exotic bird feathers. It's one of the weirdest crime cases ever, just so bizarre on all levels.

@D-S-G. Год назад

"Yo what do you do for a living" "I guard hundreds of thousands of bird corpses" "damn bro"

@DannyPellham Год назад

The Smithsonian is definitely one of the coolest organizations around.

@OliviaLoke Год назад

who else is watching this late night…

@randalllaue4042 Год назад

In Chicago, they keep all the bird collisions that crash into buildings, also have catchers during peak seasons that they happen. Saving many from second collisions. 👍❤️

@forestfox66 Год назад

Twenty years ago, I did taxidermy on a songbird as part of my zoology degree at university. It was hideous and hilarious, and it was the funniest lab session ever. It really is a learnt talent! I do not work in taxidermy now. I work in natural history film.

@cobrazoid Год назад

Will you guys show your preserved human collection next?

@_GMP_ Год назад

That will be done by robots

@giannagerster4431 Год назад

Plastination!

@tamilklmn Год назад

@@_GMP_ sigma

@water5210 Год назад

The human collection is in the basement

@nishikantangangom8961 Год назад

It will be nice to see that. Since they only take death by accident. I mean I want to be in the museum also after I die.

@jackiee91 Год назад

Damn, this would be so cool as an longer documentary!

@timfoilhat7327 4 месяца назад

The perfect conversation starter: “Hey wanna see my bird collection?”

@nightmare_symphony Год назад

This feels uncomfortable to watch but I made it through the end knowing that it's for good research purpose. It's hard to believe that there is even a bird preserved from the 1800s, but despite saying all this, it still feels strange.

@doublemosasaur5091 Год назад

Theyre doing it to humans too so theres no problem imo

@doublemosasaur5091 Год назад

As long as they dont kill it just so they can preserve it of course

@zahra_na98 4 месяца назад

Do they take DNA sample!?

@bellarose1562 29 дней назад

@@zahra_na98 they can and some do yes

@abbofun9022 Год назад

Anyone else had a ‘Dead Parrot’ Monty Python moment when seeing the thumbnail?

@ActuallyHoudini Год назад

no it isnt

@missywink1504 Год назад

'Ello Polleeeee!

@anonUK Год назад

Pinin' for the fjords.

@thisguy5017 Год назад

They're not dead, they're priming!

@toradrow777 Год назад

At least they didn't mention the war.

@Havel_the_Rock420 Год назад

This is kinda creepy.

@apurvnagare Год назад

But fried chicken isn't

@sonicdark1375 Год назад

@@apurvnagare damn right it's not

@AirQuotes Год назад

Creepy but necessary

@r0land4323501 Год назад

Only for those who do not see this as educational

@ActuallyHoudini Год назад

not really

@chidanandabisoi63 Год назад

Amazing preservation

@Goozero1 Год назад

Nice that they're doing this. Idk how many birds are out there with goofy names I don't know about so shout out to these guys.

@DM-zs8go Год назад

This is very freaky but I appreciate that they are doing it.

@hydroaegis6658 Год назад

A bird seeing this would be terrified. This must be what he'll looks like for them.

@SirBaited Год назад

Death is normal in the animal kingdom

@raji4191 Год назад

Wow pls cover programs like this. Amazing to watch

@darkwolf453 Год назад

I did this once with a bird at a biological institute for fun. It took me 7 hours to prepare a bird the size of a sparrow all by hand, with a manual from the 80s😅 but it was so much fun.

@ES11777 9 месяцев назад

Fun???!

@darkwolf453 9 месяцев назад

@@ES11777 Yeah, it was already dead, because it flew against a window. I prepared it for educational purposes, to show new students how to handle captured birds, before they would work with alive ones

@adnanbashir1756 3 месяца назад

@@darkwolf453alive ones? What

@darkwolf453 3 месяца назад

@@adnanbashir1756 They would catch them for sientific purposes, put rings on their legs and monitor their breeding behaviour. And before that, the students needed to learn how to handle them propperly

@adnanbashir1756 3 месяца назад

@@darkwolf453 oh ok.. I read it wrong earlier. Thought yall catching live ones to taxidermy lol sorry

@terebere. Год назад

That’s awesome. I want to do that one day

@africanelectron751 Год назад

Look at them sleeping so nicely... Soo cute

@tajinderkaur1785 Год назад

They are dead🥲😂

@user-xe3jb5mh4r 3 месяца назад

Только они не вернутся к жизни 😥😭😭😭

@AKSourGod 10 месяцев назад

I love how there is art in everything.

@OCAVIARY Год назад

This is brilliant👏🏼

@Crazymedicokumar Год назад

I can't imagine how the laboratory would smell 🤣

@faikcanozalp5409 Год назад

We ,Humans, are really one of a kind in the universe. Even if we find a life trace on other planets, I guess none of them will be like us

@thatguy720 Год назад

You’re correct, they really won’t be like us. It’s a big part of my belief that we were created differently from animals, that we truly are not animals.

@anishs5652 Год назад

We are one of most inhumane and brutal species.

@fioredeutchmark Год назад

@@anishs5652 🥴

@fioredeutchmark Год назад

Almost like we were made in the image of our creator or something?

@thatguy720 Год назад

@@anishs5652 How can humans be inhumane, if humans are by default, *Humane* !?!? 🤯

@rafaelperalta1676 Год назад

This is really nice for future use.

@AR-yy3cg Год назад

Interesting video!

@user-pr6vl3bg3y Год назад

Как жалко стольких птиц......

@user-wb4mb1kr9w Год назад

Соглашусь..

@user-bs2di8pt3j Год назад

Татьяна Ольга это точно у них мозгов нету

@capybarastrange4077 Год назад

Их же не убивают специально

@Jimin3871 Год назад

@@user-wb4mb1kr9w они умирают естественным путём

@user-wb4mb1kr9w Год назад

@@Jimin3871 кто сказал?

@Div0068 Год назад

Something altogether different. You are helping future generations. Thanks, great work 👍

@Ed-ty1kr 12 дней назад

My gray tabby cat finds this video very intersting, and gives it a paw up.

@AlanJLopez-gj5gf Год назад

What a cool job!

@binadutta9776 Год назад

great idea for future generations.

@einienj3281 Год назад

Morbid curiosity, very important and interesting, bit creepy.. a bird cemetery..

@cesarefasolato867 3 месяца назад

I'm sorry I lost it when he pulled out the bullet-shaped eagle 😭😭

@mukeshgoyal5560 Год назад

Great information

@mangothebirb3100 Год назад

This is quite creepy but it's definitely necessary

@delta9571 Год назад

This is so fascinating, I watched all of it.

@josephputra2987 Год назад

i feel so much optimistict energy from them in the video that knowing what they have done is gonna be usefull, yet they don't know what it is yet.

@TheHartClubNetwork Год назад

This was very cool ❤

@jamesmedalla7043 Год назад

Man that is a ornithologist's dream...... Also mine too.

@robertsiddique2948 Год назад

Hats off to this amazing and futuristic mindset 👏 🙌 👌

@drandy.youtubechannel1436 Год назад

I really want to visit there 😊

@Artec_3D Год назад

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@user-cv5xh3hn5h Год назад

А я то думаю, куда подевались исчезающие виды??? А вон они где. В ящиках лежат. Как живые. Это прекрасно. Нужно всех поймать и туда сложить.

@Nenado_S Год назад

Конечно, и следить за их популяцией не надо , как же удобно

@GreenRain_ Год назад

Вы смотрели видео? Все экземпляры умерли случайно, в таком деле животных никто специально не убивает

@GreenRain_ Год назад

Есть конечно небольшие организации, которые незаконно этим занимаются и потом продают экземпляры, и врут покупателям что они умерли случайно

@user-cv5xh3hn5h Год назад

@@GreenRain_ да с чего вы это взяли? И вообще кто вы? Вы два какие-то символа. У вас даже имени нет и фамилии. Умудряетесь своё мнение опубликовать? Какое у вас научное звание или степень?

@user-cv5xh3hn5h Год назад

@@GreenRain_ есть крупные коллекции. Допустим Кусто. Это панцири моллюскоф. Но он никогда не утверждал что в момент попадания в коллекцию моллюски были мертвы. Просто, коллекция и коллекция. Очень много фотографий. Или Порт Аф. Коллекция трилобитофф из ранне триасового периода. Тоже понятно. Или коллекция средневековых монет. Живыми небыли. В отношении другого.....

@estercolonna7380 Год назад

Non potevano lasciare volare in cielo queste povere creature . Ma per mettere in un cassetto,ma?!! 🙏 Spero che finisca presto tutto ciò.

@IamreallyAsian Год назад

This is so cool!

@gabrielassis4210 Год назад

Só me deu uma tristeza ao ver várias ararinhas azuis

@TheExplorerBanda07 Год назад

Great Great Great Work 😮👏👏👍👍👍

@callieg. Год назад

Intresting, I wish they taught this in schools.

@grumblewoof4721 Год назад

It's not a dead parrot, he's just resting.

@viriyananda Год назад

Just like us but not just collect and us or body as a museum

@r_rahul_dash Год назад

Hatsoff to their Team❤️

@canadianbird1185 Год назад

Imagine, just opening a random drawer full of neatly stacked parrots.....

@bdesarkar2126 Год назад

Amazing👍 science.

@gotechakash Год назад

3:16 what 😳 but how even though it's dead

@isinss-5799 Год назад

Eye squirt? It's just whatever fluids remains in the eye, squirting when pressure is applied. I guess it doesn't evaporate because they are frozen.

@acdatpb Год назад

Imagine seeing them 100 years from now, quite interesting

@restorationofdirty Год назад

Its amazing 🌠

@RahulKumar-yy7hd Год назад

Gd job buddy 👏

@Batman-cx8ce Год назад

now imagine someone starts preserving humans like that😓

@milk_chemistry Год назад

im pretty sure we do i know those skeletons that you see in science class were real skeletons in france up until like the 1980s 1980s was when the last one was was removed and switched to one that is not real bone so as long as you have a perfect body you could have donated your body to become a science class skeleton ive also heard of museums that have cut up human bodys (like a slice) so you can see the insides and see what your intestines and stomach and liver look like and where they are located i thought about donating my body but i'm the worst candidate i've broken 2 bones and am in bad shape SO INSTEAD IM GONNA PRESERVE MY BODY LIKE LENIN

@ngmusic5665 Год назад

They do, cadaber labs exist.

@k_c_holmes930 Год назад

There are medical museums with huge amounts of human remains kept for research purposes. Granted, it's usually bones, and some mummies, not formaldehyde (for the whole body), but ya. We do. There are a lot of individual human body parts that have been preserved in formaldehyde, like fingers, limbs, organs, etc.

@DesertKingCrocodile. Год назад

I have a question, So I have been told by me friend that taxidermied owls fall apart after a long period of time (feathers falling etc etc) Is that really the case, or is it not? I'm asking cause i was considering to get myself a taxidermied owl :]

@mawile1234 8 месяцев назад

Taxidermy specimens fall apart when they are either wrongly prepared (as not removing all the fat as described in the video) or from insect damage. Moth and different types of beetles like to eat the skin and feathers. Exposure to sunlight can damage taxidermy as well and of course they shouldn’t be touched as this can wear the feathers as well. The bigger problem with a taxidermied owl is that as as I know more or less all owls are protected species all around the world. Getting a legal specimen from a sustainable source (like one that died in a car accident or didn’t made it at a wildlife rehabilitation center) as a private person will be a challenge.

@tamilraji Год назад

Good job for futures..

@hacky_sackin Год назад

That’s so adorable that Christina and her husband get to work together XD

@ABMNATN Год назад

I would love to see the dragons they have

@rodgomez4424 Год назад

Never knew how birds really were till I had me a Parrot... Those who know know

@viriyananda Год назад

Yeah they died and they just borrow they corpse in museum so fair

@grapiebee 4 месяца назад

I hope these specimens can last for a long, long time.

@u_r_so_cute 4 месяца назад

I just watched GDT cabinet of curiosities : the outside and RU-vid recommended this video to me 🙂

@darkbionic1044 Год назад

Interesting to remember them and study them once they become into extinction

@ittimjones Год назад

I had a coopers hawk just like that! He flew into a tree and crushed his skull was pretty cool to handle up close.

@ES11777 9 месяцев назад

Cool??!

@linggiman Год назад

this is so cool

@miguelbecerra2399 Год назад

Amazing

@Corgi_Donut 11 месяцев назад

I have no idea why I’m watching this..

@MahnoorHussain-eq1ov 19 дней назад

Us moment

@pedrohelbert574 Год назад

Que tristeza é o ser humano 😔😔😔😭😭😭

@maximinomarcorio2956 Год назад

Pior que é mesmo 😢

@pedrohelbert574 Год назад

@@maximinomarcorio2956 infelizmente poderíamos ter vivido em um mundo melhor, mas fomos e somos incapazes , triste!

@Rosfield_SW Год назад

The people that call this strange, but does not realize what goes into preparing human bodies for burial... like cmon now... educate yourself. Your body gets drained, stitched or glued to help "preserve" the loom for viewing.

@OscarTheRCChicken Год назад

Wish i could visit there.

@theHarry-lo5it Год назад

It not good for our nature please don't killed Bird 😔😔

@andreiromero6044 Год назад

True ,🤣🤣😁

@jayashreegurav3846 Год назад

They take birds which are dead

@LOOKtheresAbeaver 3 месяца назад

It is good for nature so if the bird does go extinct we can revive it with the DNA from the specimens

@jacquelineknauff4835 Год назад

DID YOU GET DNA SAMPLES

@user-ze3lk1ov5b Год назад

No need to these species are not extinct

@faizankhan-bm3se Год назад

very good quality

@marcusromans9815 Год назад

I have one question do you have a specimen of the extinct kauai oo bird?

@darkwowpg Год назад

Vegans are giving this video a like.

@user-be7ul1sy5c Год назад

Гады,что творят!!!

@samwright285 Год назад

Awesome

@shamashelhashysh9159 Год назад

C: 'Ello, Miss? Owner (Palin): What do you mean "miss"? C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint! O: We're closin' for lunch. C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique. O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it? C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it! O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. C: Look, my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now. O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

@scouttyra Год назад

@gotterdammerung5527 Год назад

You know it's not just movies. There really are a few levels of the Smithsonian that no one else is allowed to go in except for the people that tend to the artifacts. If all the crazy world war two conspiracy theories are true then that means the United States almost certainly "required" some stuff from the Germans. Artifacts to which they have course took from their respective lands.

@ajishrajan5579 Год назад

What a nice job, no excel sheets and data reports...also get to experience first hand experience on wild life. Wish I too had these type of a job 🙃

@joevillan892 3 месяца назад

I dissected a Killed Bill Toucan and I'm trying to figure out how to reserve the beak and skull.

@himanshudoshi26 Год назад

We need to start preserving humans, and that we need to start with museum people, let their dedication be seen in after life too.

@KateeAngel Год назад

They already have a lot of remains of indigenous people I bet

@kashibirdsanimals3838 Год назад

amazing

@jdkgcp Год назад

The process isn't really that strange....but the people doing it sure are.

@SirBaited Год назад

Not really, seeing dead animal can really affect people mental health

@vladimirmachado Год назад

I appreciate what science does, and I support it! And I know that the Smithsonian work is great, but I love birds so much! it is hard for me to see their bodies like that! I know that the institute does not kill birds and that they where already dead when they arrived, but it is hard for me to see them like this!

@albertogemma8903 Год назад

Molto interessante 👏👏👏

@yulianuschannel Год назад

wow amazing

@tomsimpson5317 Год назад

They killed all those birds for nothing

@pahanjayasooriya2513 Год назад

They didn't kill them, they were already dead

@RubykonCubes3668 Год назад

You wouldn't know half of these bird specimens even existed if it weren't for these ppl and this video. Also, fun fact, they were dead already.

@CabalisOrder Год назад

if aliens exist... this is what they do with other lifeforms 0_0

@SirBaited Год назад

Nah they only need your specimen

@user-qd4hc6qf3l 7 месяцев назад

That is so cool

@alancosta4760 Год назад

This is how our grand-grandchildren will know how birds were

@silviosilveira8338 Год назад

Não gosto de ver pássaros em gaiolas ,agora mortos em gavetas é horrendo a vida de cada ser vivo que tiramos e um roubo levando em conta que não damos vida a nenhum.