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Links to
museum research collections of birds **
(with
their official acronyms for citing specimens)
* asterisks indicate searchable online data-bases
Warning: links to many web pages change
frequently; please let me know if a link is "dead"; for additions and
corrections, including official acronyms, email: Van Remsen
Alphabetical by institution:
* Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP)
* American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Arizona
State University Natural History Collections (ASU) [available
through Ornis]
* Auckland Museum (AIM)
* Australian Museum (AMS)
Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC)
Bell Museum of Natural History, University of
Minnesota (BELL)
[available through Ornis]
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BPBM) [available through Ornis]
* Borror Lab
of Bioacoustics, Museum of Biodiversity, Ohio State University
* British Library National Sound Archive (NSA)
* Burke Museum, University of Washington (UWBM)
* California Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM)
* Centennial Museum, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
Conner Museum, Washington State University (CRCM) [available through Ornis]
Chicago Academy of Sciences
Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH)
Colecci—n Boliviana de Fauna, Instituto de Ecolog’a
(CBF)
Colecci—n
Nacional de Aves, Instituto de Biolog’a, Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de
MŽxico (CNAV)
* CONABIO: Red Mundial de Informaci—n sobre
Biodiversidad (REMIB)
* Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV)
Delaware
Museum of Natural History (DMNH)
* Denver Museum of Nature and Science
* Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH)
Finnish Museum of Natural History
* Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (UF)
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Humboldt
State University Wildlife Museum (HSUWM)
Illinois State Museum (ISM)
Illinois State University (ISU) [available through Ornis]
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels (IRSN)
Institute
of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Instituto de Ciencias Biol—gicas, Escuela Politecnica
Nacional, Quito (MEPN)
* Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional
de Colombia, Bogot‡ (ICN)
Instituto de Ecolog’a y Sistem‡tica, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba,
Habana
Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucum‡n
Instituto de Biolog’a, Universidad Nacional Aut—noma
de MŽxico, Colecci—n Nacional de Aves (CNAV) [available through CONABIO]
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
(INPA)
* Manchester Museum, University of Manchester (MMUM)
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada - Las
Vegas (MBM)
Michigan State University Museum (MSU) [available through Ornis]
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College (MLZ)
MusŽe Royal d'Afrique Central, Tervuren (MRAC)
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires (MACN)
Museo de las Aves de MŽxico, Saltillo, Coahuila
Museo de Biodiversidad Maya, Universidad Aut—noma de
Campeche (MBM-UAC)
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (MSNM)
* Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola
Museo Departamental de Ciencias Naturales
"Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia", Instituto Vallecaucano de
Investigaciones Cient’ficas INCIVA, Cali
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN)
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad del Cauca,
Popay‡n
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad de La Salle,
Bogot‡
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos, Lima
(MUSM)
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de los Andes (ANDES)
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz (MHNNKM)
Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid (MNM)
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana Vieja,
Cuba
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago
Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia (MUA)
Museo de Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones de
Recursos Biol—gicos "Alexander Von Humboldt"
Museo de Zoolog’a "Alfonso L. Herrera,"
Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico (MZFC)
Museo de Zoolog’a, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
(ECOSUR)
Museo de Zooog’a, Escuela de Biolog’a, Universidad de
Costa Rica
Museu de Zoologia "JosŽ Hidasi"
(MZJH/UNITINS)
Museo de Zoolog’a, Pontificia Universidad Cat—lica
del Ecuador (QCAZ)
Museos Nacionales de Historia Natural y Antropologia, Montevideo
Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, BelŽm (MPEG)
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de S‹o Paulo (MZUSP)
* Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ)
MusŽum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de GenŹve,
Geneva (MHNG)
MusŽum National d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie, Paris (MNHN)
* Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University (LSUMZ)
* Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB)
* Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley (MVZ)
Museum Victoria, Melbourne (NMVM)
Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, University of
California, Davis (MWFB)
* Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (UMMZ)
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden
National Museum of Ireland (NMINH)
* National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM)
National Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo
National Museums of Scotland
National Zoological Collection of Suriname
* The Natural History Museum, Tring (BMNH)
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM)
Natural History Museum/Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna (NHMV)
Naturhistorisches Forschungsinstitut, Museum fźr Naturkunde
Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-UniversitŠt zu Berlin
Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NHMB)
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet/Swedish Museum of Natural
History, Stockholm (NR)
New York State Museum (NYSM)
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM)
* Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University (YPM)
Provincial Museum of Alberta (PMA)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
* Royal British Columbia Museum
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH)
* San Bernardino County Museum (SBCM)
San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM) [available
through Ornis]
Santa
Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) [available
through Ornis]
* Senckenberg Natural History Museum
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound (PSM) [available through Ornis]
Staatliches Museum fźr Tierkunde, Dresden
Sternberg
Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (MHP) [available through Ornis]
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (TCWC) [available through Ornis]
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
Tulane Museum of Natural History (TU)
UCLA Dickey Collection (UCLA) [available
through Ornis]
Universidad Aut—noma de Baja California. Ensenada,
Baja California, MŽxico
Universidad Aut—noma de Nuevo Le—n, Monterrey, Nuevo
Le—n, MŽxico (UANL) [available
through CONABIO]
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol‡s de Hidalgo,
Morelia, Michoac‡n, MŽxico (UMSNH) [available through CONABIO]
* University of Alaska Museum (UAM)
University
of Alaska, Anchorage (UAAAC)
University of Arizona Bird Collection (UAZ) [available through Ornis]
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) [available through Ornis]
University of Copenhagen Museum of Zoology (ZMUC)
University of Kansas Natural History Museum (KU)
* University Museum of Zoology Cambridge
* University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM)
Utah
Museum of Natural History, University of Utah (UMNH) [available through Ornis]
Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ) [available through Ornis]
Zoological Collections of Uzbekistan
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad (ZI)
* Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMUA)
Zoological Museum, Moscow University (ZMUM)
Zoologische
Staatssammlung Mźnchen, Munich
Zoologisches
Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)
Alphabetical by Country outside
USA:
ARGENTINA
Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucum‡n
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires (MACN)
Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires
AUSTRALIA
* Australian Museum (AMS)
Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC)
Museum Victoria, Melbourne (NMVM)
AUSTRIA
Natural History Museum/Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna (NHMV)
BELGIUM
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels (IRSN)
MusŽe Royal d'Afrique Central, Tervuren (MRAC)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
BOLIVIA
Colecci—n Boliviana de Fauna, Instituto de Ecolog’a
(CBF)
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz (MHNNKM)
BRAZIL
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
(INPA)
Museu de Zoologia "JosŽ Hidasi" (MZJH/UNITINS)
Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, BelŽm (MPEG)
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de S‹o Paulo (MZUSP)
CANADA
Provincial Museum of Alberta (PMA)
* Royal British Columbia Museum
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
CHILE
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago
COLOMBIA
* Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional
de Colombia, Bogot‡ (ICN)
Museo Departamental de Ciencias Naturales "Federico Carlos Lehmann
Valencia", Instituto Vallecaucano de Investigaciones Cient’ficas
INCIVA, Cali
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad del Cauca, Popay‡n
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad de La Salle, Bogot‡
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de los Andes (ANDES)
Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia (MUA)
Museo de Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones de
Recursos Biol—gicos "Alexander Von Humboldt"
COSTA RICA
CUBA
Instituto de Ecolog’a y Sistem‡tica, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba,
Habana
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, La Habana Vieja, Cuba
DENMARK
University of Copenhagen Museum of Zoology (ZMUC)
ECUADOR
Instituto de Ciencias Biol—gicas, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito
(MEPN)
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN)
Museo de Zoolog’a, Pontificia Universidad Cat—lica del Ecuador (QCAZ)
ENGLAND
* Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
* The Natural History Museum, Tring (BMNH)
* University Museum of Zoology Cambridge
FINLAND
Finnish Museum of Natural History
FRANCE
MusŽum National d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie, Paris (MNHN)
GERMANY
* Senckenberg Natural History Museum
Staatliches Museum fźr Tierkunde, Dresden
Zoologische Staatssammlung Mźnchen, Munich
Zoologisches
Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)
IRELAND
National Museum of Ireland (NMINH)
ITALY
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (MSNM)
* Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola
KENYA
MEXICO
Colecci—n
Nacional de Aves, Instituto de Biolog’a, Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de
MŽxico (CNAV)
* CONABIO: Red Mundial de Informaci—n sobre
Biodiversidad (REMIB)
Instituto de Biolog’a, Universidad Nacional Aut—noma
de MŽxico, Colecci—n Nacional de Aves (CNAV) [available through CONABIO]
Museo de las Aves de MŽxico, Saltillo, Coahuila
Museo de Biodiversidad Maya, Universidad Aut—noma de Campeche (MBM-UAC)
Museo de Zoolog’a "Alfonso L. Herrera," Universidad
Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico (MZFC)
Museo de Zoolog’a, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
Universidad Aut—noma de Baja California. Ensenada, Baja California,
MŽxico
Universidad Aut—noma de Nuevo Le—n, Monterrey, Nuevo Le—n, MŽxico (UANL)
[available through CONABIO]
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol‡s de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoac‡n,
MŽxico (UMSNH) [available
through CONABIO]
NEW ZEALAND
* Auckland Museum (AIM)
NETHERLANDS
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden
* Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMUA)
PERU
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos, Lima
(MUSM)
RUSSIA
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad (ZI)
Zoological Museum, Moscow University (ZMUM)
SCOTLAND
National Museums of Scotland
SOUTH AFRICA
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
SPAIN
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid (MNM)
SURINAME
National Zoological
Collection of Suriname
SWEEDEN
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet/Swedish Museum of Natural
History, Stockholm (NR)
SWITZERLAND
MusŽum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de GenŹve,
Geneva
Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NHMB)
URUGUAY
Museos Nacionales de Historia Natural y Antropologia, Montevideo
UZBEKISTAN
Zoological Collections of Uzbekistan
ZIMBABWE
National Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo
Also, be sure to see:
CONABIO (for Mexico)
** no link provided if the museum or collection's
website does not provide contact information concerning the bird collection