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Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection

Specimen Records: 105,381
Media Records: 448
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-24

The Canadian Museum of Nature's extensive Bird Collection is comprised of study skins, mounted specimens, skeletons, nests, eggs, and some fluid-preserved specimens. In all, there are approximately 125,000 specimens representing ca. 2,600 species (one quarter of the world's species). This reference collection documents the extensive variation found in bird species across Canada, but also in countries where some of our birds spend the winter, such as Mexico or Brazil. The collection contains specimens taken over a long span of time, including species that are now extinct.

Contacts

Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Gregory Rand
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailgrand@nature.ca
Name Stéphanie Tessier
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailstessier@nature.ca
Name Marie-Hélène Hubert
RoleCollection Technician
Emailmhhubert@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Gregory Rand
RoleManager, Bird Collection
Emailgrand@nature.ca
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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