This is bird note.

If you see a feather on the ground, I'm sure 99% of the people will pick it up and see it.

And imagine which bird it came from.

Isha Munshi co-founded the feather library, a digital library that collects and documents the feathers of Indian birds. Launched in 2021, the library has high-resolution photographs of about 90 birth species,

like the brilliantly coloured Indian pita and the wispy tail feathers of the wide-tailed swallow.

Each feather is carefully documented.

These are birds that came to a rescue center in Gujarat, India but didn't survive.

Isha trained under Vanya Roa at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and learned how to prepare the feather specimens.

It's learning at every process because very few people in the world

do something like this. The digital library offers a glimpse into the birds that aren't seen in

most photos, like the details of their flight feathers, which are hidden when the bird is perching.

Wire till swallows wires have like a fork at their end of their wires, which is like

the microscope level I'm talking about.

This library is open to everyone, whether you're a researcher, birdwatcher, conservationist,

or an ordinary person who came across the feather.

I dream that someday feather library will have

all the species of the world nicely catalogued for anyone to see.

Find a link to the feather library at our website, birdnode.org.

I am Ananya.