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Hawks Are Everywhere!
Red-tailed Hawks Nesting at the Coliseum
Ornithology, the study of birds, is one of the founding disciplines of the Natural History Museum. At the core of the program is a research collection of 121,000 bird specimens, representing over 5,400 species. Our collections are particularly strong for North America, Africa, South America, and the Pacific Ocean. The bird skeleton collection, representing over 17,000 individuals, is among the three largest in western North American and is an important resource for the museum’s well-known studies of fossil birds.
Birds of LA County
Birds of Exposition Park
The ornithology collection can be searched online through VertNet, iDigBio, or GBIF. Our institution code is LACM and our collection code is Birds.
Questions? Contact us at [email protected].