Bird Museum Dallas | Perot Museum of Nature and Science

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Brain Juice Focus

Birds

Is that a dinosaur at your bird feeder?

Even though dinosaurs like T. rex and Alamosaurus have faded into extinction, birds have adapted to survive. Come and explore fossil specimens, compare footprints, and weigh the evidence to discover the astonishing links between prehistoric dinosaurs and modern-day birds.

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A mother and her children review a bird display.

Build your own virtual bird

Birds of a feather flock together. Throughout the hall are stations where you can choose unique feathers, beaks, wings, feet, and even a bird call to create your own special bird.

Attracting the ladies

Courtship for birds can be through colorful exhibitions of feathers, dances, fancy aerial demonstrations, or unique bird calls. Learn the inventive and intelligent ways birds go about attracting the ladies.

A family looks on at an exhibit showing birds' evolution from dinosaurs.

Follow birds' journey through the ages

Birds were present during the time dinosaurs roamed Earth and have continued to evolve over the last 65 million years.

Build your own virtual bird

Attracting the ladies

Follow birds' journey through the ages

Rose Hall of Birds Scavenger Hunt

Find the digital highlights of rare works from our renowned Edmund W. Mudge, Jr., Library of Ornithology
Find the Yellow Warbler, which was collected in 1938!
Find the Eastern Phoebe — it comes from as far away as Weslaco, TX, at the very southern tip of the state.

A child interacting with a bird-flight simulator.

Amazing Fact No. 122

You can start a fire with ice.

Start by shaping an extremely clear piece of ice into a disc that is thick in the middle and narrow at the edges. Now, smooth away any rough edges with the warmth of your hands. Angle your ice lens towards the sun, focusing the light on a pile of tinder. The ice acts as a convex lens, directing photons to a localized point. The resulting concentration of heat energy can reach extremely high temperatures, allowing the tinder to catch on fire. This is sometimes easier said than done — the purity of the ice, thickness of the lens, and quality of tinder can all affect the process.

Amaze Me Again!

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You might be surprised to know that birds are modern-day dinosaurs. Head down a level to the Life Then and Now Hall to gaze up at ancient fossils, and discover more about evolution and how it works.

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Is that a dinosaur at your bird feeder?

Build your own virtual bird

Attracting the ladies

Follow birds' journey through the ages

Build your own virtual bird

Attracting the ladies

Follow birds' journey through the ages

Rose Hall of Birds Scavenger Hunt

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