OCCURRENCE

DMNH Birds

Latest version published by Delaware Museum of Natural History on 22 December 2016 Delaware Museum of Natural History
The bird collection consists of approximately 67,000 study skins, 2,500 spread wings and 9,000 skeletons. The holdings represent about 4,000 bird species. About 140 taxa are in the type collection. The collection, worldwide in scope, has especially strong holdings of Philippine and Central and South American birds. Extinct species are also represented. Formation of the collection began when the Museum was founded in 1957. Among the collections that can be found here are those of George Miksch Sutton, Allan R. Phillips, Olin S. Pettingill, D.S. Rabor, M. Hachisuka and specimens from Charles Sibley's expeditions in 1975-1977 .
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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c21cd435-718a-4069-b503-776bf0e22b96.  Delaware Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Jean L. Woods, Ph.D.
Curator of Birds
Delaware Museum of Natural History
4840 Kennett Pike
19807-0937 Wilmington
DE
US
+01 302-658-9111 -- 314
http://www.delmnh.org

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Jean L. Woods, Ph.D.
Curator of Birds
Delaware Museum of Natural History
4840 Kennett Pike
19807-0937 Wilmington
DE
US
+01 302-658-9111 -- 314
http://www.delmnh.org

Who filled in the metadata:

Jean L. Woods, Ph.D.
Curator of Birds
Delaware Museum of Natural History
4840 Kennett Pike
19807-0937 Wilmington
DE
US
+01 302-658-9111 -- 314
http://www.delmnh.org

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Laura Russell
VertNet Programmer
VertNet
Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

Collection is worldwide in scope with strengths in USA, Mexico, and Philippines.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Class Aves (Birds)

Class  Aves

Collection Data

Collection Name Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) Bird Collection
Collection Identifier http://grbio.org/cool/ywsm-eq6q
Parent Collection Identifier not applicable
Specimen preservation methods Dried

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers c21cd435-718a-4069-b503-776bf0e22b96
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=dmnh_birds