Results for "Smithsonian Ornithology: Where Research Takes Flight (Website)"
- Blog Post
Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!
- Date: May 9, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.
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SIA RU009596, Conservation Research Center, National Zoological Park Oral History Interviews, 1992-1999, 2004-2005
- Date: 1992 1992-2005 1992-1999, 2004-2005
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-068, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Clippings, 1983-2007
- Date: 1983 1983-2007
- Creator: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009624, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Oral History Interviews, 2010, 2013
- Date: 2010 2010-2013 2010, 2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009536, The Research and Development (RAND) Corporation Videohistory Collection, 1987-1990
- Date: 1987 1987-1990
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Link Love: 9/9/2011
- Date: September 9, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Among the many photos in the Archives' collections are images from the Panamanian island, Coiba, where former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, conducted ornithological research. We've featured some of these images on the blog before, and I always wondered about their captions, which mentioned that Coiba was a penal colony.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-032, American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1986-2005
- Date: 1986 1986-2005
- Creator: American Ornithologists' Union
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
WWII: Collecting and Interpreting the War
- Date: June 27, 2016
- Description: Not only did the Smithsonian research in Washington, D.C., inform the course of World War II, the war also shaped the collections and research of the Smithsonian. Military medical staff sent thousands of specimens of disease carrying insects to the museum for identification. Soldiers stationed in far-flung locations provided the Smithsonian with collecting opportunities that
- Webpage
The Smithsonian in Books
- Date: July 10, 2013
- Description: A list of books which reference the Smithsonian.
Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley
- Date: December 15, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.
- Blog Post
Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers
- Date: March 24, 2016
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.
- Blog Post
Searching the Archives’ Collections
- Date: October 25, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.