#learn taxidermy
A bit about European Starlings: these feisty, metallic birds are the most numerous bird in North America despite being from, well, Europe.
Annoyingly, in 1890 a drug manufacturer named Eugene Schieffelin thought he knew better than Mother Nature and released around 60 of them in Central Park. He thought it was ‘a shame’ that America didn’t have the birds that Shakespeare wrote about.
Today, the ancestors of these birds decimate crops, resources and nests of native birds.
Every farmer or naturalist will tell you that the only good European Staring is a dead one - unless perhaps it resides in native Europe.
So, we’re putting some from pest control to good use in my classic Birds 101 class.
Our replica reptiles class with Olivia Miseroy could not have gone better! 15 students learned posing, mold & casting, made their own resin snakes and painted their big rattlesnakes too. And, it was the first class at the new Prey studio!
A big thank you to Olivia for her expert instruction and dedication to her craft. We would love to do this class again and maybe do an advanced class too. You can follow Olivia at @terrafaunadesign
Thank you to my wonderful and talented students for coming. What a fantastic bunch! I can’t wait to see what you guys do next!
Oh, and we even enjoyed a lunch with our taxidermy-dad Tim Bovard, taxidermists at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
Great weekend!
