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Why Files visits the zoology museum!

Posted March 31st, 2009

Working on a story about the role of citizen-scientists, we visited the UW-Madison Zoological Museum, looking at some cool collections. Here’s a drawer full of Baltimore orioles — which are not even the most colorful birds in the drawers. Tropical birds take that honor, says curator Paula Holahan.

Here, pretty bird!

Here, pretty bird!

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Image courtesy of Pete Mouginis-Mark, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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