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Articles About History

A Feathered Tempest

by Stephen J. Bodio

The improbable life and sudden death of the Passenger Pigeon

In the FieldMementos of a Grouse Long Gone

by Jack Connor

Can you miss a bird that you have never seen?

Around the LabSapsucker Woods Centennial

by Tim Gallagher

Darwin's Other Birds

by Stephen J. Bodio

The humble pigeon, in all its splendid variety, may have influenced Darwin's thinking more than his finches did

Around the LabAn Acoustic Anniversary

By Pat Leonard

Recording a dawn chorus in Ithaca, 80 years ago

Around the LabView from Sapsucker Woods

by John Fitzpatrick

Aerial photos show the reforestation of rural New York, including the Cornell Lab's home turf

Mark Catesby's "Little Sparrow"

By James L. Reveal

Can you identify this mystery bird from America's colonial era?

Dr. Orbell's Unlikely Quest

By Eric Karlan

How a New Zealand physician's boyhood dream led to the rediscovery of a lost species

A Birding Legend

By Tim Gallagher

Roger Tory Peterson turns 100

The Prairie Hens of Illinois

By Andrew Beahrs

Mark Twain's favorite bird...to eat

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