Natural History Galleries
Gallery of Birds
Level 2, Philosophers’ Walk Wing
Hundreds of species of birds in flight—from a large albatross with a nine foot wing-span to a tiny little hummingbird—await you in this gallery. Pull-out drawers let you examine more closely eggs, feathers, footprints and nests. Mini-dioramas teach you about extinct birds and how environmental changes and habitat destruction have put other species in danger.
Continue your exploration of the natural world in The Schad Gallery of Biodiversity also located on Level 3.
Podcast
Flightless Birds
October 05, 2006
Technician Oliver Haddrath discusses the genetic relationship of large flightless birds (third episode of three). (Episode 3 of 3)
Video Podcast (10 MB, 1m 44s)
Written Transcript (PDF)
View of the Gallery of Birds.
Birds in flight display.
Royal Albatross mount, Diomedia epomophora, collected 1990.
