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Powdermill Avian Research Center (PARC) offers many opportunities for researchers that want to collaborate or utilize the banding database of over 800,000 records.

Tour our Bird Banding and Research Facilities Avian Perception of Glass at PARC Millions of birds die every year flying into windows, because they can’t tell reflections from trees, plants, and sky. Most of these windows are on houses.  In partnership with the American Bird Conservancy, PARC is studying bird behavior in a specially built […]

Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s biological research station Powdermill Nature Reserve is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Powdermill Avian Research Center (PARC) is the bird banding and avian research facility at the museum’s research station.

Throughout the year we welcome visitors who want to understand the research taking place at PARC. Click here to learn more about planning your visit.

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