Birds

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Articles and videos

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Winter in Chicago—Get Outside!

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I put GoPros on my bird feeders

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How Birds inspire Builders

Exhibit Halls

Black-eyed Susans in the foreground with the North side of the Field Museum in the background.

Rice Native Gardens

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Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

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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Bird Egg Collection

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Edward E. Ayer Collection

Plate showing a Roseate Spoonbill, from John James Audubon's Birds of America.

John James Audubon Collection

Southern Amazonian birds and their symbionts

People

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Peter Lowther

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David Willard

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Dylan Maddox

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Cameron Rutt

Press Releases

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The earliest known bird had complex tongue bones and fleshy “teeth” on the roof of its mouth—which might have helped it snag the food it needed for flight

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This flower evolved a new shape so that different birds could pollinate it. Then, it spread.

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Field Museum acquires fossil of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird

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Quartz crystals in the stomach of fossil bird complicates the mystery of its diet

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Media for Birds

Birds

Archaeopteryx fossil slab with small foot slab.

Fossil Birds

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Project News

Events

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Poetry Pop-up: Poetry is the Thing with Feathers

A group of scientists, professionals, museum staff, and visitors listen to a lecture in a room with large windows, a chandelier, and large wooden fireplace.

Armour Seminar: Scott Weidensaul

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Pollinator Week in the PlayLab