Hall of New York City Birds

At AMNH Exhibitions, the Hall of New York City Birds traces the local avian world across borough parks, waterfronts, and marsh edges. Dioramas and specimen displays connect migration routes to the city’s changing habitats, from coastal flyways to remnant grasslands. The museum has long used this hall to situate New York within broader patterns of ecology and conservation, a quiet counterpoint to the city’s pace. If the presentation can feel of another era, that distance also reveals how ideas about nature in New York have been curated over time.