Katrina van Grouw’s The Unfeathered Bird is a stunning collection of her drawings, complemented by plenty of ornithological nuggets
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FOR most of us, a dead bird that the cat has dragged in is something to be shunned.
But for some people, death is only the beginning. Katrina van Grouw spent seven years as a curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum in London, where removing skin and mounting skeletons gave her an appreciation of the delicate complexity of birds’ bones. In The Unfeathered Bird, her experience forges…
