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Botflies, Chicago Parakeets, and the Smallest Collection | Ask Emily #13

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

Illinois' first White-winged Dove specimen

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

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Peregrine Shot

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Peregrines, Dermestids & Social Media

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)

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)

Recounting the life of a successful Peregrine

Fran photographed at the Waukegan nest site.

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

Book of Eggs

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Media

North American Ornithology: Past, present, and future comes to Chicago

Black Rail!

Recovering Peregrines with Mary

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

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2012 REU Intern Jennie Lee

Brood Parasitism—Host Lists

Camiguin Hanging-Parrot: a new species from a small Philippine Island

Darwin and museum collections

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Birds

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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John Bates

Shannon Hackett

Thomas Gnoske

Chad Eliason

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Peter Lowther

Mary Hennen

David  Willard

Ben Marks

Dylan Maddox

“Feathered dragon” had some of the longest tail feathers ever found on a fossil bird

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The Egg Collection!

Botflies, Chicago Parakeets, and the Smallest Collection | Ask Emily #13

Merlin confirmed nesting in Illinois for the first time!

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Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds

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“Feathered dragon” had some of the longest tail feathers ever found on a fossil bird

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