Birds

Exhibitions

Girls looking in a drawer at a fossil as a couple in background looks at birds in case

Hall of Birds

A rare opportunity to get up close with hundreds of species of bird.

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Events

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Sat

03

Jun

Group of finches in the NHM Nature Gardens

Nature Gardens Exploration: Birding

Special Program All Ages

11 am

Drop in to the Nature Gardens to see what L.A. birds are hanging out.

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Sun

04

Jun

Nature Gardens Exploration: Birding

Special Program All Ages

11 am

Drop in to the Nature Gardens to see what L.A. birds are hanging out.

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Sat

10

Jun

Nature Gardens Exploration: Birding

Special Program All Ages

11 am

Drop in to the Nature Gardens to see what L.A. birds are hanging out.

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Sun

11

Jun

Nature Gardens Exploration: Birding

Special Program All Ages

11 am

Drop in to the Nature Gardens to see what L.A. birds are hanging out.

Learn more

Sat

17

Jun

Nature Gardens Exploration: Birding

Special Program All Ages

11 am

Drop in to the Nature Gardens to see what L.A. birds are hanging out.

Learn more

Stories

Allen's hummingbird gorget magnified at 100x

There's a Feather for That

Bird Curator Allison Shultz lays out the surprising powers of plumage and how understanding feathers helps humans—and helps humans to help birds.

Year of the Rabbit

Celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection

Small Wonders

NHM’s new Scanning Electron Microscope Lab connects guests with big science and tiny specimens.

Birding with students at San Pascual Elementary School

Let's Go Birding!

Join a student-guided avian adventure

Cooper's hawk on a railing by inaturalist user radrat

How Littler Raptors Are Making It in the Big City

Picturing the perfect city raptor with community science data

Backyard Birding
Episode 2: Habitats

The incredible variation in L.A. County’s landscape also means there’s an incredible variety of birds.

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NHM Virtual Field Trip

DIY Bird Feeder

DIY Bird Feeder: Attract birds to your garden by building your own bird feeder.

Comedero Para Pájaros

Comedero Para Pájaros: Atraiga pájaros a su jardín construyendo su propio comedero para pájaros.

Ornithology

Ornithology, the study of birds, is one of the founding disciplines of the Natural History Museum. At the core of the program is a research collection of 121,000 bird specimens, representing over 5,400 species. Our collections are particularly strong for North America, Africa, South America, and the Pacific Ocean.

Past Projects

While NHM is not currently working on these projects, they have influenced our current community science projects.