Feather Expert Roxie Laybourne
ID: SIA2009-2205
Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1990
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Box 1, Folder: Photos/No. 60 Spring 1990
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- Feather expert Roxie Laybourne examines one of the many feathers that arrive at her office. Tucked away in a small office in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Laybourne is the world's leading expert on feather identification. She first began work at the Smithsonian in 1944.
- Roxie C. Laybourne originated the science of forensic ornithology. Often called the "feather detective," Laybourne used feathers to identify bird-strike accidents in military and commercial aircraft, to solve crimes for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to identify feathers unearthed by archeologists, and to recognize species of endangered, poached, or illegally killed birds.
Subject
- Laybourne, Roxie C. 1910-2003
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Zoology
- Department of Zoology (USNM)
- United States National Museum Dept. of Biology Division of Birds
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Birds
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- This image found in Smithsonian Institution Research Reports Spring 1990.
- For more images of Roxie Laybourne, see SIA2009-2205, SIA2010-0575, SIA2010-0580, SIA2010-0639, SIA2014-07398, SIA2014-07403, SIA2014-07404, SIA2014-07405, SIA2014-07406, SIA2014-07407, SIA2014-07411, SIA2014-07413, SIA2014-07417, SIA2014-07421, SIA2014-07431, SIA2014-07434, SIA2014-07441, SIA2014-07442, and SIA2014-07448.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Box 1, Folder: Photos/No. 60 Spring 1990
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1990
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Women
- Animals
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Zoology
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Forensic sciences
- Specimens
- Birds
- Employees
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Ornithologists
- Ornithology
- Zoologists
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
ID Number
SIA2009-2205
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print