The work of Bird Safe Philly supplies future research - Grid Magazine

The work of Bird Safe Philly supplies future research - Grid Magazine

Jason Weckstein cranks open one lane of the massive movable storage unit holding one of the world’s 10 largest collections of birds, revealing stacks of long drawers, each filled with rows of still, silent birds. The ornithology research lab at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) is home to more than 200,000 of these taxidermied study skins from more than 7,000 bird species. Some of the oldest window-strike birds in the collect…