.dropcap { color: #838078; float: left; font-size: 82px; line-height: 60px; padding: 5px 8px 0 0; } .art-aside-tmp { height: auto !important; min-height: auto !important; } Bret Nainoa Mossman spent two weeks in the summer of 2023 winding his way across Europe. On a shoestring budget, blowing through most of his vacation time from his job, Mossman tried to make every minute count—he knew it might be his only chance to visit these ancient cities. But the 28-year-old wasn’t a typical backpacker taking in tourist sites. Carrying a large black rifle case stuffed with camera equipment, Mossman spent his days in the dimly lit recesses of museums, taking pictures of more unusual relics: long-dead birds. From dawn to dusk, working mechanically as the day faded, he sat alone with the preserved species that had once lived in his Hawaiian homeland. For hundreds of years, Western explorers, collectors, and researchers gathered birds from the Hawaiian Islands...