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Delaware Museum of Nature & Science — Birds

Specimen Records: 76,380
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-12-13

The bird collection of the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (DMNH, formerly known as Delaware Museum of Natural History) consists of approximately 67,000 study skins, 3,000 spread wings and 11,000 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 .

Contacts

Name Ashley Kempken
RoleCollections Manager of Birds
Emailakempken@delmns.org
Name Ashley Kempken
RoleCollections Manager of Birds
Emailakempken@delmns.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Matthew Halley, Ph.D.
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailmhalley@delmns.org
Name Ashley Kempken
RoleCollections Manager of Birds
Emailakempken@delmns.org
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
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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
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