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Links to
museum research collections of birds **
(with
their official acronyms for citing specimens)
* asterisks indicate searchable online data-bases available at
the institutional link
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
Version 4 Sep. 2018
Alphabetical by institution:
* Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
(ANSP)
* American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC)
Barrick Museum, Univ. Nevada
at Las Vegas (UNLV)
Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BPBM)
* 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)
* Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH)
Colección Boliviana de Fauna,
Instituto de Ecología (CBF)
Colección
Nacional de Aves, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (CNAV)
* CONABIO: Red Mundial de Información 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)
Institut Royal des Sciences
Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels (IRSN)
Institute
of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela
Politecnica Nacional, Quito (MEPN)
* Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
Bogotá (ICN)
Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Academia
de Ciencias de Cuba, Habana
Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán
Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Colección Nacional de Aves (CNAV)
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)
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College (MLZ)
Musée Royal d'Afrique Central, Tervuren (MRAC)
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos
Aires (MACN)
Museo de las Aves de México, Saltillo, Coahuila
Museo de Biodiversidad Maya, Universidad Autónoma
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 Científicas
INCIVA, Cali
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias
Naturales (MECN)
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad del
Cauca, Popayán
Museo de
Historia Natural, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá
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 (MNCN)
Museo Nacional de Historia
Natural, La Habana Vieja, Cuba
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago (MNHN)
Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia (MUA)
Museo de Vertebrados, Instituto de
Investigaciones de Recursos Biológicos "Alexander Von Humboldt"
Museo de
Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera," Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (MZFC)
Museo de Zoología, El Colegio
de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
Museo de Zooogía, Escuela de Biología,
Universidad de Costa Rica
Museu de Zoologia "José Hidasi" (MZJH/UNITINS)
Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Ecuador (QCAZ)
Museos Nacionales de Historia Natural y
Antropologia, Montevideo' (MNHN)
Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém (MPEG)
Museu de
Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP)
* Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ)
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de
Genève, Geneva (MHNG)
Muséum 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
The Natural History Museum, Tring (BMNH)
* Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM)
Natural History Museum/Naturhistorisches
Museum, Vienna (NHMV)
Naturhistorisches Forschungsinstitut, Museum
für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Naturhistorisches
Museum, Basel (NHMB)
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet/Swedish Museum of
Natural History, Stockholm (NR)
* New York State Museum (NYSM)
Norfolk Museums &
Archaeology Service
* North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM)
* Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale
University (YPM)
Royal Belgian Institute of
Natural Sciences
* Royal British Columbia Museum
Royal Museum of Alberta (PMA)
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH)
* San Bernardino County Museum (SBCM)
San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH)
Senckenberg Natural History Museum
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of
Puget Sound (PSM)
Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (TCWC)
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
Tulane Museum of Natural
History (TU)
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Ensenada, Baja California, México
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey,
Nuevo León, México (UANL)
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de
Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México (UMSNH)
* University of Alaska Museum (UAM)
University of Alaska,
Anchorage (UAAAC)
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
* Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ)
Zoological
Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad (ZI)
Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMUA)
Zoological Museum, Moscow University (ZMUM)
Zoologische
Staatssammlung München, Munich
Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum
Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)
Also, be sure to see:
Electronic Inventory of European Bird
Collections
** no link provided if the museum or
collection's website does not provide contact information concerning the bird
collection
Thanks to Joseph W. Brown for
many updates