The Ornithology Department at the Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s leading bird research units! We have an amazing collection of almost 60 thousand specimens, a biobank of wild bird cell cultures, and a newly created Bird Observatory!
We need your support to carry on advanced research in Ornithology and keep training the next generation of bird specialists and conservationists.
Support our collection!
With donations to our collection, you are supporting specimen preparation, improvements for better collection tours, and field work in Florida and in the tropics!
Make a gift to the Ornithology collection!
Student Jake Arango organizing specimen drawers- Students Naisha Napoleon, Mia Keriazes and Preston Ballard studying Eastern Towhees with Dr. Glau Del-Rio
- Student Zully Doyle making bird specimen 3D models
- Andy Kratter inspecting Andean Condor wing with students Jake Arango and Thomas Lilkendey
- Student Natalie MacDonald measuring Vireos for her research project
- Dr. Glau Del-Rio studying an owl specimem with student Thomas Lilkendey
Support the UF Bird Observatory!
With donations to the UF Bird Observatory, you are supporting our activities to band birds in Florida, conservation of Florida birds, and training of Ornithology students!
- Charlie Muise, UFBO manager, teaches students how to set up mistnets
- Charlie Muise teaches students how to age birds by molt
- Charlie Muise, Mia Keriazes and Preston Ballard capture and band an Eastern Screech-Owl
- Students learn how to extract birds from mistnets
- Eastern Towhee captured and banded in the UFBO
- Student Charles Rodgers learns how to handle birds
