Listen | Discover | Engage a service of Southern Oregon University
The Jefferson Exchange

A Bird In The Hand: Southern Oregon's "Feather Atlas"

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

US Fish & Wildlife

You found a feather on the ground when you got home last night, and you just don't know which bird it came from.  Enter The Feather Atlas

It is a website set up by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's forensics laboratory in Ashland, and it provides a place to compare the feather you found with images of bird flight feathers compiled by the site. 

Steller's jay or scrub jay?  There IS a difference... Pepper Trail from the lab stops by with details of the atlas and what it took to assemble.
 

Stay Connected
The Jefferson Exchange is Jefferson Public Radio's daily news program focused on issues, people and events across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Angela Decker is the program's senior producer, Charlie Zimmermann is the assistant producer, and Geoffrey Riley hosts the show.