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Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...
Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.
A new exhibition featuring a rare collection of prints is coming to the Houston Museum ... North America. The full four volumes contain 435 hand-colored prints. The exhibition will go on display ...
It's not hard to imagine why a group of teenagers might attempt to steal John James Audubon's book The Birds of America ... book in the Museum's library, weighing in at a whopping 25 kilograms. Six of ...
A study published in Science reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they ...
for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, for this collection and for ornithology are considerable. Kevin Winker is curator of birds at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
BREWSTER — An art display featuring local birds opens soon at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. According to a community announcement, "Resident Birds of Cape Cod" by artist Joan Flahive ...
Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...
This species is one of the most widely distributed, abundant, well-known, and well-named birds in North America. Polytypic. Length 8.7". Usually sits in an obvious place or is found in flocks ...