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 ...

Examples of Waldrop's bird and egg collection seen during the search warrant. Two men were sentenced by a federal judge in Brooklyn on Wednesday for their role in trafficking hundreds of federally ...

UNDER a cracked and leaky ceiling, Andres Cuervo works on a colourful, dead hummingbird for the ornithological collection of the National University of Colombia, the country with more bird species ...

In honor of Charles Darwin’s 215th birthday, meet the only original Darwin specimen in North America Naomi Greenberg This shorebird specimen in the museum’s Division of Birds was collected by Charles ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the world, housing over 600,000 specimens, from ducks to eagles to peacocks. The collection was created ...

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 ...

There are about 1,200 specimens in the taxidermy collection and a few more in the skeletal collection, mainly British bird species. The majority of specimens come from two large Victorian collections ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History historic bird collections was critical in determining that the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people worldwide did ...