A Library of Feathers
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
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| 0:00.0 | This is Burnard. |
| 0:07.7 | If you see a feather on the ground, I am sure 99% of the people will pick it up and see |
| 0:13.4 | it and imagine which bird it came from. |
| 0:16.6 | Esha Amunshi co-founder of the feather library, a digital library that collects and documents |
| 0:21.6 | the feathers of Indian birds. |
| 0:23.9 | In 2021, the library has high resolution photographs of about 90 birds species, like the brilliantly |
| 0:31.3 | colored Indian pita and the vispies tail feathers of the white tail swallow. |
| 0:39.6 | Each feather is carefully documented. |
| 0:42.5 | These are birds that came to a rescue centre in Gujarat, India by Jainsavaya. |
| 0:47.1 | Esha trained under one year rover at the corner lab of her mythology and learnt how to prepare |
| 0:52.9 | the feathers specimens. |
| 0:55.0 | It's learning at every process because very few people in the world do something like |
| 1:00.1 | this. |
| 1:01.1 | The digital library offers a glimpse into the birds that aren't seen in most photos, |
| 1:05.9 | like the BTS of their flight feathers, which are hidden when the bird is perching. |
| 1:10.9 | Wired tail swallows wires have like a fork at their end of their wires, which is like |
| 1:18.1 | the microscope level I am talking about. |
| 1:21.5 | This library is open to everyone, whether you are a researcher, bird watcher, conservationist |
| 1:26.6 | or an ordinary person who came across the feather. |
| 1:30.1 | I dream that some day feather library will have all the species of the world nicely get |
| 1:35.4 | logged for anyone to see. |
| 1:37.6 | Find the link to the feather library at our website birdnord.org. |
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