Happy Fourth of July from the NYSM! This bald eagle, currently on display in Birds of New York Hall, is one of the oldest specimens from our collections and even pre-dates the discovery of the Cohoes Mastodon by sixteen years! The specimen, an adult male, was part of the personal collection of H...
Ornithology
Ornithological research at NYSM uses the collection of nearly 20,000 bird specimens as the basis for studies of the changing distributions of New York birds, and the evolution of bird species that live in New York. We study living birds in the field and use DNA sequence data from NYSM bird specimens to investigate patterns of bird speciation and extinction.