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  • 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
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    What Woodpecker Brains Can Tell Us about Concussions
  • 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.
    Article
    Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Video
    Botflies, Chicago Parakeets, and the Smallest Collection | Ask Emily #13
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Video
    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
    Article
    Merlin confirmed nesting in Illinois for the first time!
  • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
    Article
    Nesting: How Scientific Collections Helped Reveal an Artist's Inspiration
  • Ivory Gull by Nathan Goldberg
    Article
    Of Ivory Gulls and Parasites
  • Image for Things seen in the Bird Division #11: 'Til death do us part
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    Things seen in the Bird Division #11: 'Til death do us part
  • Storm damage Northerly Island
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    Post-storm Northerly Island update
  • Image for Northerly Island reopens!
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    Northerly Island reopens!
  • Image for Illinois' first White-winged Dove specimen
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    Illinois' first White-winged Dove specimen
  • Image for A tropical wanderer visits the Midwest
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    A tropical wanderer visits the Midwest
  • Image for Peregrine Falcons Removed from IL Endangered List
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    Peregrine Falcons Removed from IL Endangered List
  • Red Knot 1YY, Montrose Beach, Chicago, 22 May 2015, © Matthew Cvetas
    Article
    The traveling knot
  • Image for History and birds come together: Spring Migration Notes from 1920 and its famous authors
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    History and birds come together: "Spring Migration Notes" from 1920 and its famous authors
  • Image for Birds get malaria, too
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    Birds get malaria, too

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