The Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur Story
A tale of how science works
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Bird Moves  
Get ready to shake your tail feathers!
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Celebrate Nature With Us!
Take the City Nature Challenge and meet the person who started it all!
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Auk-Ward
One story goes that, in just half an hour, hundreds of auks were herded onto a single ship
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Explore the Wild Outside
When yards and gardens become more wildlife friendly, the experience can be magical
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The How and Why of Colorful Feathers
Equal parts ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, Assistant Ornithology Curator Dr. Allison Shultz has been investigating two questions throughout her research career: how are birds colorful, and why are birds colorful.
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A Bird of A Feather
A special bird flies home to NHM
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Be a SuperProject Hero
In Los Angeles, you can find nature in some unexpected places. NHM's SuperProject keeps track with help from the community.
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Parasitic Birds Have a Choice to Make
Non-native pin-tailed whydahs sneak their eggs into other birds' nests to survive, but what happens when a bird from their native habitat roosts in Los Angeles?
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Bird Crashes into Museum Building and Dies for Science
Making the scientific best of an unfortunate situation.
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