Feather Expert Roxie Laybourne
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Object Details
- Date
- 1990
- Author
- Minor-Penland, Laurie
- 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.
- Summary
- 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.
- Contained within
- 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
- Topic
- Birds
- Women
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Ornithologists
- Ornithology
- Forensic sciences
- Zoologists
- Specimens
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- SIA2009-2205
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8052