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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Grant S, Webbink K, Marks B (2022). Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection. Version 14.21. Field Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/exkxdx accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-19.

Description

The Division of Birds houses the third largest scientific bird collection in the United States. The main collection contains over 480,000 specimens, including 600 holotypes, 70,000 skeletons, and 7,000 fluid specimens. In addition, the division houses 21,000 egg sets and 200 nests. The scope of the collection is world-wide; all bird families but one are represented, as are 90% of the world's genera and species. Included among its many historically and scientifically valuable individual collections are the H. B. Conover Game Bird Collection, Good's and Van Someren's African collections, C. B. Cory's West Indian collection, the Bishop Collection of North American birds, a large portion of W. Koelz's material from India and the Middle East, and many separate collections from South America, Africa (Hoogstraal from Egypt) and the Philippines (Rabor).

Additional info

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

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Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Sharon Grant
originator
position: Technology Liaison to Science
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605
IL
US
Telephone: 3126657203
email: sgrant@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: http://fieldmuseum.org/users/sharon-grant
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0201-732X
Kate Webbink
originator
position: Information Specialist
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605
IL
US
Ben Marks
metadata author
position: Collection Manager
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605
IL
US
email: bmarks@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: http://fieldmuseum.org/users/ben-marks
Shannon Hackett
principal investigator
position: Associate Curator of Zoology, Birds
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605
IL
US
email: shackett@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: http://fieldmuseum.org/users/shannon-hackett
Laura Russell
programmer
position: Programmer
VertNet
email: larussell@vertnet.org
John Bates
principal investigator
position: Curator
The Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
60605
IL
US
email: sgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Sharon Grant
administrative point of contact
position: Technology Liaison to Science
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
60605
IL
US
Telephone: 3126657203
email: sgrant@fieldmuseum.org
homepage: http://fieldmuseum.org/users/sharon-grant
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