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The birds collection (ZO) of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 63,396
Media Records: 103,126
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

Two databases concern the bird collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. The database AVES covers skins and mounted specimens, but the collection includes also eggs, nests and alcoholic preparations. Today, this collection numbers some 180 000 specimens, including approximately 2500 types. Search results follow Howard and Moore Checklist (updated to corrigenda) and taxonomic sequence. The upper geographical rank conforms to the ISO 3166-1 code. Undetermined locality does not necessarily mean that the information is no available, but that its validity has not yet been checked. This and others additional information are sometime accessible by consulting label photographs that we progressively add to the database. The database ZAC (acronym for “Zoology, Comparative anatomy”) exists since 2010. It is the result of the merger of MAMMALIA (former collection of “Zoologie, Mammifères et Oiseaux”) and ANATOMIC (former collection of “Anatomie comparée”). This database concerns skeletons (mounted or not) and fluid preserved specimens (formalin). More information can be obtained by writing to the curators and collection managers. The database will help you prepare loan requests or visits to the collection. For any request contact: http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Patrick Boussès
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Cécile Callou
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Fuchs
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Christine Lefèvre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Patrick Boussès
RoleCorrespondant
Emailbousses@mnhn.fr
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
geopoint_datum_missing  i36604
57.739
dwc_datasetid_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_kingdom_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_phylum_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_taxonid_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i31223
49.251
dwc_taxonrank_added  i31223
49.251
gbif_canonicalname_added  i31223
49.251
gbif_genericname_added  i31223
49.251
gbif_taxon_corrected  i31223
49.251
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i30830
48.631
gbif_vernacularname_added  i30087
47.459
dwc_multimedia_added  i28847
45.503
dwc_class_added  i27402
43.224
gbif_reference_added  i27335
43.118
dwc_specificepithet_added  i25552
40.305
taxon_match_failed  i15101
23.82
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i14046
22.156
dwc_continent_replaced  i13112
20.683
geopoint_low_precision  i12995
20.498
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i12231
19.293
dwc_country_replaced  i4484
7.073
rev_geocode_eez  i2949
4.652
dwc_family_replaced  i1325
2.09
dwc_order_replaced  i1259
1.986
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1016
1.603
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i627
0.989
dwc_genus_replaced  i509
0.803
rev_geocode_mismatch  i58
0.091
geopoint_0_coord  i21
0.033
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i19
0.03
rev_geocode_failure  i9
0.014
dwc_genus_added  i8
0.013
dwc_class_replaced  i6
0.009
dwc_family_added  i4
0.006
dwc_order_added  i4
0.006
rev_geocode_corrected  i4
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i4
0.006
datecollected_bounds  i2
0.003
geopoint_bounds  i2
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.003
dwc_continent_added  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002