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Research News

Ornithology

Steadman digging

Evolution

Thomas Farm: a prehistoric treasure

July 14, 2015

Places like the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles echo famous prehistoric…Read More

Webber operating tape player

Collections

Bird calls on demand

June 13, 2014

While standing next to a shelf filled with thousands of aging reel-to-reel and other tape recordings of bird sounds collected…Read More

A researcher holds a tiny bird fossil with forceps

Life on Earth

Past bird extinctions could help today’s conservation

March 21, 2013

A new study of nearly 5,000 Haiti bird fossils shows contrary to a commonly held theory, human arrival 6,000 years…Read More

researcher looking over Andes landscape

Grants & Initiatives

Researcher receives grant to study birds in the Andes

September 19, 2011

With $800,000 from the National Science Foundation, Florida Museum of Natural History conservation biologist Scott Robinson is researching bird ranges…Read More

Domestic cat

Life on Earth

Study finds cats No. 1 predator to urban mockingbird nests

May 5, 2011

A new University of Florida study shows cats are the dominant predator to mockingbird eggs and nestlings in urban areas, prompting conservationists…Read More

Jessica Oswald examines a bird fossil

Life on Earth

Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom

March 7, 2011

A new study demonstrates extinction’s ripple effect through the animal kingdom, including how the demise of large mammals 20,000 years ago led…Read More

Tom Webber listens to bird recordings

Collections

Bird sound recordings going digital

February 1, 2010

Ornithologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History are preparing to digitize nearly all of the museum’s analog bird-sound field…Read More

hummingbird fossils

Evolution

Hunting fossil hummingbirds in Florida

March 1, 2008

Birders in Florida may get a thrill when they spy a ruby-throated hummingbird flitting through their backyard — after all,…Read More

brown bird specimen with collection tag

Life on Earth

New Frogmouth bird genus found in South Pacific Solomon Islands

April 1, 2007

Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new…Read More

Haas preparing samples

Collections

Ancient DNA illuminated

November 1, 2006

Nestled snugly at the end of Dickinson Hall’s west wing, in a room with bleached concrete floors, bleached counters and…Read More

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