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She Was a Quiet Bird Expert. Then She Was Called to Investigate a Murder in Maine.

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File this one under Fascinating profiles of Extraordinary Women. In an excerpt from The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne, Chris Sweeney tells the story of how Roxie Laybourne, a bird expert at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, pioneered the field of forensic ornithology in the 1970s. Her unique skill—the ability to identify the type of bird from a fragment of a feather—was critical…
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Longreads broke the news in on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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