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MMNH Museum Bird Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Barker K (2016). MMNH Museum Bird Collection. University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/9vfhrm accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-02-21.

Description

The Bell Museum’s Bird Collection currently houses approximately 46,000 catalogued specimens. Of these, the majority are standard, dried study skin preparations, although there are approximately 3,600 skeletons, 2,500 sets of eggs and 450 nests. Many of the recent specimens (> 4,000) have accompanying frozen tissue samples.

Additional info

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

varied
  1. Aves
    common name: birds rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Most specimens come from the upper midwest and the majority of these are from Minnesota. However, there are about 12,000 specimens from Mexico. We also have historically important collections from the Philippines resulting from the Menage expedition.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Keith Barker
originator
position: Curator of Genetic Resources
Bell Museum of Natural History
100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul
55108
MN
US
Telephone: +01 612-624-2737
email: barke042@umn.edu
homepage: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/
Keith Barker
metadata author
position: Curator of Genetic Resources
Bell Museum of Natural History
100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul
55108
MN
US
Telephone: +01 612-624-2737
email: barke042@umn.edu
homepage: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Keith Barker
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Genetic Resources
Bell Museum of Natural History
100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul
55108
MN
US
Telephone: +01 612-624-2737
email: barke042@umn.edu
homepage: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/
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