Taxodermy Showcase at Wild Cortes

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There will be a special Taxidermy Showcase at Wild Cortes on Saturday, September 14.    Cortes Currents interviewed Laurel Bohart and Donna Collins, the co-curators of Wild Cortes, in the exhibition area. The bird songs in the audio of this story are from a recording of local birds, which provides atmosphere for the displays but is unrelated to this story. Collins gave an overview of the plan for the evening, starting from the opening at 6 PM. “Laurel is going to have a brief talk, and then we'll have lots of time to wander through all of the birds and see what's there. We're going to showcase Laurel's taxidermy from Africa and also some  local animals not necessarily from Cortes Island  that maybe nobody has ever seen before. There's also going to be some Nigerian artwork and interesting things like there's a Bird of Paradise under glass."  "Mostly they're in very unique postures,  for example, our Snowy Owl with the wings completely up. This is the posture that they take just as they're going to step off the posts, or whatever they're on, and take flight.