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Erin Englerth, of Chicago, had her arm tattooed with a rose-breasted grosbeak, like the one next to her arm at the Field Museum on July 27, 2016.
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Erin Englerth, of Chicago, had her arm tattooed with a rose-breasted grosbeak, like the one next to her arm at the Field Museum on July 27, 2016.
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The regular Wednesday Field Museum volunteers, plus 15 or so others, are a large part of why the Chicago museum boasts the fourth-largest bird specimen collection in the world, says Ben Marks, collection manager of birds and head of zoological collections for the museum.