My Bald Eagle Collection

Here are some of my giant birds.
Bald Eagles, Red Tailed Hawks, and California Condors.

[gbaker]

love watching these with the hypothetical context that hes not associated with this museum at all and just broke in and started making videos

[jewlz]

My grandpa would donate eagles he would find deceased to Native American tribes for their traditional regalia. Very cool collection!

[jakenuno]

I live in California and I was fishing at a lake and seen a giant tree covered with probably about 50 condors. Then suddenly they all flew off at once and created this constant great giant swooshing tone that I can say sounded almost like a helicopter in the distance minus the tone of the engines. The giant tree shook as if there was a storm, as they all flew higher and higher up the mountain. Never seen anything like that ever again, just the occasional flock high in the sky circling. Glad I was able to witness it.

[hacleine]

I need more of these longer videos. They're so informative

[oakenshadow]

The excitement I can hear in your voice just brings me joy.
That bird is over 100 years old. Incredible. 1904. Dang. 3:53

[LGrif]

All the cabinets. I want to see the cabinets.

Something else I’d like to see is more comparative anatomy videos. I find that really fascinating and I’d love to see what you come up with.

Thanks for putting out such great content!

[ytoutdoors]

5:10 collectors don't normally collect bird bones because in ornithology speciation occurs when birds start to develop plumage different from the parent species (also different vocalizations in most birds especially passerines). While in mammalogy, speciation occurs when a mammal start to to have morphological differences from its parent species, i.e. differences occurring in its skeletal anatomy. That's why all grouse are considered different species from one another since they all have distinct plumages (sage, ruffed, praire chicken, sooty, etc.) While Columbian-blacktail and mule deer are considered the same species albeit a subspecies of the other because they have no morphological differences even though they have visual differences. Thus collecting only the plumage of birds is more informational to an ornithologist than bones. This is opposite to a mammalogist, although most collectors still collect the furs to distinguish between subspecies and to know how a mammal looks like.

[mandajeffrey]

Let’s see some of the owls!! Also love your videos. So informative and I love seeing the variety you share.

[mungbean]

I would guess that the "straw stuff" we can see inside one of the birds is actually excelsior (long thin wood shavings). I think they've used this in taxidermy since the mid 1800s. It's not as common these days.

[asmrplushpaws]

That looks like a super interesting place to work. Thanks for sharing

[arlenadietz]

My daughter works at a wildlife rehabilitation center in the PNW and she deals with many Bald Eagles. Sadly so many have lead poisoning. Some they can save, some....😥 She works in the baby bird nursery in summer. Never a dull moment.

[pauraque]

As an avid birder I could totally identify all of those raptors just by their belly. I'd die to be there and see em 😭


btw I would check the label on the first box, I think there were some swainson's hawk mixed in with the red-tails and roughies

[Funnyfish]

They look peaceful. Like a sleepover! They share a bunkbed!

[MikeyJBlakeJR]

You remind me of a beloved professor I had in college. He taught a bit dry of a subject but his passion for it inspired our passion. Keep doing what you're doing, man.

[DanteYewToob]

I assume the “floofy neck” does the same job as the fluff on a spear. Spears have that fluff to stop blood from dripping down to your hands and making them slip.
So the floof neck probably stops most of the blood and germs from getting down on the body where it’s harder to clean off.

[HeiressEllie]

I didn't expect there to be a field that studies eggs much less that it would be called oology

[Nasuto]

would love to see more owls and raptors! as someone who works with living raptors and taxidermy its always facinating to see

[maverick]

The naked heads are more likely a thermoregulatory adaptation, considering these species experience drastic temperature shifts between soaring and being on/near the ground. The head is pulled in during flight to preserve heat and helps keep them cool on the ground, where it is much hotter. There are plenty other scavenging birds (and you know...mammals...) that do not have naked heads, and they're completely fine despite getting covered in gore and blood regularly.

[Ara-..]

4:04 that bird has survived both the cold war, first war, second world war. What a chad.





other than its been dead all the time but-

[heka_lilitssun]

This channel is so wholesome, and I'm here for it.

The enthusiasm makes it awesome 👍