Dirty Birds
Horned Larks collected in Illinois between 1904 and 1916 (left) and California and British Columbia between 1903 and 1922 (right) show the effects that coal soot had on bird feathers. Photo by: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay
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Soot-covered Birds Provide Clues to 20th-century Pollution

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Dirty Birds
Horned Larks collected in Illinois between 1904 and 1916 (left) and California and British Columbia between 1903 and 1922 (right) show the effects that coal soot had on bird feathers.
Photo by: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay

University of Chicago graduate students use museum collections to track soot from black carbon

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2017

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Horned Larks are cute songbirds with white bellies and yellow chins—at least, now they are. One hundred years…

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