Research assistant James Whatton confirms the feathers in front of him belong to a gray catbird. Credit: Smithsonian In the hallways of the National Museum of Natural History—past the bathrooms, the ...
Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands of miles. Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands ...
The Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab has one of the largest bird collections in the world and contains more than half a million specimens representing nearly 10,000 species—greater than 80 ...