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Esha Mushi

Esha Mushi

Former architect and founder of the Feather Library, India's first digital library of bird feathers, now associate curator of birds at NCBS Bengaluru.

Sep 25, 2026

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The amount of birds which die because of human intervention is huge.
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So if we have a channel to use those dead birds to fill the gap in the knowledge base which we have in India, it can be amazing.
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Why did you decide to come up with a library of feathers?
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Flight feathers are something which you don't see unless the bird is flying.
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When it's sitting, it's always covered with other feathers.
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So that's why it was important to record these flight feathers.

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