{"id":2194,"date":"2015-12-10T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","slug":"birds-preserve-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/12\/10\/birds-preserve-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"birds preserve documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubon.org\/news\/russian-birds-accidentally-preserved-historic-documents-their-nestshttps:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2205\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik.jpg\" alt=\"sfw_qcm_jwlprik.jpg\" width=\"1597\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik.jpg 1597w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/sfw_qcm_jwlprik-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1597px) 100vw, 1597px\" \/><\/a>Birds living in a cathedral in Zvenigorod, Russia accidentally preserved documents from the 1830s! &#8221; &#8216;Swifts and jackdaws, which collected the documents to build nests, run their archives differently than\u00a0people do,&#8217; wrote Sedov [Dmitriy Sedov, research director of the Zvenigorod Historical and Architectural Museum] <a href=\"http:\/\/zvenmuseum.ru\/ptichiy-arhiv-na-kryishe-zvenigorodskogo-sobora\/\">in a statement on the museum\u2019s website<\/a>. Instead of gathering up the most historically important documents and shelving them according to subject and chronology, the birds took whatever they could find. The result is an &#8216;incredibly diverse collection of fragments of human thoughts, feelings, experiences, concerns, passions and desires,&#8217; he wrote, forming &#8216;a single giant discordant chorus&#8217; of Zvenigorod life from 1830 through the early 1900s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often I get to use the category &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/category\/perpetrated-by-animals\/\">perpetrated by animals<\/a>,&#8221; so, thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradocollege.libguides.com\/stevelawson\">Steve Lawson<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds living in a cathedral in Zvenigorod, Russia accidentally preserved documents from the 1830s! &#8221; &#8216;Swifts and jackdaws, which collected the documents to build nests, run their archives differently than\u00a0people do,&#8217; wrote Sedov [Dmitriy Sedov, research director of the Zvenigorod Historical and Architectural Museum] in a statement on the museum\u2019s website. 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