When the UA’s bird collection was started in 1884, curator Herbert Brown was tasked with cataloging the hundreds of nest, bird and egg specimens he collected by hand, and the only way to see those ...
IOWA CITY - Want to check out a book about meadowlarks? How about a specimen of an actual meadowlark? The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History would be the place to go. And officials there ...
The Milwaukee Public Museum is getting ready to relocate. As part of our series exploring the museum’s archives ahead of its move, we’re turning to zoology. Nearly half of the MPM’s four million ...
It doesn’t get top billing at the North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster. But venture into the basement and behold a world-class bird collection whose origins are full of intrigue and ...
Lined with endless rows of white cabinets, Harvard’s Ornithology Collection is imposing — even mausoleum-like — upon first glance; it’s only after opening the drawers that the true colors of the ...
We’re in Carnegie Science Hall, peering into a vintage display case of stuffed birds. The nameplate says it’s the Waterman Collection. That would be Willard H. Waterman of Auburn, an avid birder of ...
On the table in this photograph are the remains of more than 130 wedge-tailed eagles (Aquila audax) — Australia’s largest bird of prey. The birds had been poisoned, and I needed to confirm the species ...
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