A kid stands in the middle of a gallery, looking at an interactive screen outside a display case full of large flightless birds. There are four other display cases with taxidermied birds in the room. In the right foreground, another visitor can be seen through the glass of a display, looking at the specimens inside.

Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds

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Winter in Chicago—Get Outside!

I put GoPros on my bird feeders

The Field Museum

How Birds inspire Builders

The Egg Collection!

Murder by Birder [60 Second Specimens]

Two photos, one of a black and white bird with a red head on a tree; one of a row of jars of museum specimens

What Woodpecker Brains Can Tell Us about Concussions

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Left: Downy Woodpecker, Arlene Koviol. Right: Field Museum wet specimens.

Rows of bird specimens with yellow necks; half have gray stomachs and half have white bellies

What Hundred-Year-Old Birds Tell Us About the Environment

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Eggshells, DDT, Collections, and Study Design

Spring Migration Notes...By a Murderer

A woman drawing on a large sheet of paper, in a forest of bright green, leafy plants

Women in Art: Peggy Macnamara, Artist in Residence

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Brightly colored iridescent feathers, ranging from bright blue and green to yellow and orange.

Feathers and Our Feathered Friends

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Feathers of a Nicobar Pigeon.

Media

2016 By The Numbers

Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Top 10 Science, Nature, and Culture Stories of 2016

Left: Pieces of eggshell and small bones laid out in rows. Right: A young boy and an older woman carry live turkeys by the feet through a market.

Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago

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Left: Turkey bones and eggshells from 1,500 years ago discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. Right: A boy with domestic turkeys in Oaxaca. Both images 

How Bird Vomit Helps Us Understand History

Sex Lives of Peregrine Falcons & Time Travel Discoveries | Natural News | Ep. 2

Brown and white bird perched on a branch in front of a blue sky

Merlin confirmed nesting in Illinois for the first time!

Merlin by John Picken

Celebrating the Protection of Migrant Birds

Five Ways Animals Keep Their Cool

Seven Animal Moms Almost as Good as Yours

Nesting: How Scientific Collections Helped Reveal an Artist’s Inspiration

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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).

Nesting: How Scientific Collections Helped Reveal an Artist's Inspiration

5 Behind-the-Scenes Specimens with Links to Darwin

The Birds and the Bees: Craziest Animal Mating Stories

Of Ivory Gulls and Parasites

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Ivory Gull by Nathan Goldberg

Things seen in the Bird Division #11: 'Til death do us part

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Post-storm Northerly Island update

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Storm damage Northerly Island

Specimens That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Northerly Island reopens!

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Illinois' first White-winged Dove specimen

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Tea Parties, Bird Barf, and Rat Skulls

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Banding Baby Dinosaurs

A tropical wanderer visits the Midwest

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The Chicago Peregrine Program

Peregrine Falcons Removed from IL Endangered List

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Peregrine Removed from Illinois' Endangered List

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The traveling knot

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Red Knot 1YY, Montrose Beach, Chicago, 22 May 2015, 

History and birds come together: "Spring Migration Notes" from 1920 and its famous authors

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Birds get malaria, too

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The plight of Ivory Gulls illuminated by museum specimens

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In early January, birders from around the country trekked to try to see an Ivory Gull which spent a few days near Quincy, Illinois.

Using eBird to keep up with recent sightings in your area

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Illinois to remove Peregrine Falcon from [state] Threatened Species List

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Peregrine Shot

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Who's your daddy? A hybrid duck in Glenview

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Nathan Leopold, the Field Museum, and WTTW

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Peregrines, Dermestids & Social Media

Bird of the week: Valentine's lovebirds

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Demystifying Mapping:  Low-Cost and Easy Tools for Mapping Natural Areas, Plus Other Fun Tech Tools

Bird Calls of Amazonia

Bird of the Week: Amorous Gannets

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A Cape Gannet couple engages in pair bonding, ignoring the ruckus of the thousands of gannets around them. © Keith Barnes/www.tropicalbirding.com (Like Tropical Birding on Facebook)

What are the feathers in those Amazonian headdresses?

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Bird of the Week: American Kestrel

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Evolutionary atlas of Malawian birds

An assessment of the relative thickness and density of limb bones in extinct diving birds (Aves, Hesperornithidae)

New paper published about bird migration in Africa

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This Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) was seen migrating with groups of Steppe Buzzards (Buteo vulpinus) over Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda, on 16 March, 2013.

Follow up: A first for Illinois, discovered in the Field Museum's collection

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A first for Illinois, discovered in The Field Museum's collection

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Recounting the life of a successful Peregrine

Fran photographed at the Waukegan nest site.

Meet the newest species of bird in North America: A Gunnison Sage-Grouse specimen arrives in Chicago

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A Cassin's Sparrow meets its end a long way from home

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Year of the Passenger Pigeon

Eggs from The Field Museum's collection, each in its own tray, aligned in rows.

Book of Eggs

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Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History

The Audubon Field Guide

Things seen in the Bird Division #2 (or: A Parliament of Taxidermied Owls)

How many trees are there in the Amazon?

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Species in a world that thinks there is a clear division between basic and applied science

Remembering Ted Parker

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Rewriting The Birds Tree of Life

Meet the Field Museum Women In Science (FMWIS) Interns

What do researchers want?

Black Rail!

The Birds and the Trees

Another Thursday night for the Bird Division

The Chimney Swifts are back

One of the most interesting things learned about birds in 2012

Owls

The Egg Book cometh

On the wonder of taxidermy

10 Reasons to Visit the Renovated Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds

Burrowing owl at Montrose

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Recovering Peregrines with Mary

The Birds In My Backyard

Vancouver to Chicago in five days

More on Chicago's botulism outbreak: What to do?

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Why are Montrose's shorebirds dying?

The Bird Halls, maps, and Downy Woodpeckers in the Chicago region

Variety is the Spice of Lice

Looking into Nature's Toolbox

Vocalizations of Willard's Sooty Boubou

Of William Faulkner, vultures, and nature

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Road kill

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Remembering Volunteer Paul Baker

Investigating little ornithological questions can lead to bigger things

What is a big discovery in ornithology?

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Amazonian speciation in a ring: Phylogeographic history of the Channel-billed and White-throated toucans

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2012 REU Intern Jennie Lee

Science at FMNH : Ep. 47 - DNA Residency Showcase

Answers and mysteries from DNA sequences

The value of specimens of all ages

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UC Davis graduate student Jennifer Phillips gets scholarship award to work in Bird Collections

Birds

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