Hello, everyone! As you may know, I am not physically close enough to the UMMZ to take daily photos anymore. However, my wonderful friend Ash Boudrie (@ashboudrie) has kindly agreed to help keep Life with Dead Birds current to museum happenings by becoming our new photo-human! That title will change weekly, I’m sure.

Ash does research photography over at the UMMZ Bird Division, so she is constantly photographing all sorts of amazing birds to add more visual information to our databases. Many of the photos she sends will likely be freshly added to our specimen records, so you’ll be among the first to see them, certainly among the public. These are also the photographs that research will use to virtually examine physical characteristics, including size, dimensions, and plumage color.