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Photographer | Katherine Wolkoff |
Title | Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis. Found beneath wires by Stanley Stinson. December 11, 1929 |
Block Island, located 11 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, is an important stopover for migrating birds.
One day in the early 20th century, Elizabeth Dickens, a native inhabitant of the island, began collecting the dead birds.
She stuffed them, catalogued them – and created her own project including 172 ornithological and handpicked ‘specimens’.
Every death is meticulously documented: crashed into the lighthouse, strolled too...