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The crucial series of specimens collected by Robb Brumfield and currently held at the UW Burke Museum. Photo by Rafael Marcondes.
12 May 2020

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An Obscure Bird and the Richness of Biological Specimens

The beauty of specimens in biological collections is that they keep serving researchers for an indefinite period of time after they have been collected.

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