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Research Resources for Ornithologists

• Chicago Academy of Sciences Ornithology Collection A well-known collection consisting of 12000 skins and over 1000 mounted specimens, including 583 species of North American birds.
• Cornell Library Rare and manuscript collections of all sorts, amongst which the is L A Fuertes Ornithology Collection.
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates Ornithology Collection in Ithaca, NY, currently consists of approximately 37000 skins, 4300 skeletons, 1200 fluid-preserved specimens, 3200 egg sets, 700 nests, and 1000 uncataloged mounts.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology Library of Natural Sounds is the world leader in bird song recording and analysis for conservation, education, research, and recreation purposes. As the world's largest repository of bird songs, LNS contains 100000 individual recordings representing more than half the world's bird species. These recordings are contributed by researchers and volunteer Lab affiliates from around the world.
• Cornell University Bioacoustics Research Program The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is one of the world's leading facilities for the study of animal communication, and specializes in developing and applying new techniques for recording and analyzing animal sounds.
• Borror Laboratory for Bioacoustics, Ohio State University Houses one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world, approximately 23200 recordings of over 1000 species of animals including an impressive list of passerine and non-passerine bird songs in a variety of habitats. A current catalog is available for browsing. The BLB is also a center of active research on animal sounds.
• Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, Illinois. The museums Birds Division's online database contains approximately 430,000 catalogue records.
• Florida Museum of Natural History Pierce Brodkorb Ornithology Collection University of Florida, Gainesville. Represents the collection of fossil birds amassed by the late Professor Pierce Brodkorb and recently acquired, integrated and computer cataloged by FLMNH with support from the National Science Foundation. The catalog consists of nearly 10000 numbers on a database that can be queried by example.
• Lindsay Wildlife Museum Walnut Creek, California. A wildlife rehabilitation and educational center that focuses on native California wildlife and natural history. Exhibits live, non-releasable native wildlife. Founded in 1955, the museum is the oldest and one of the largest wildlife rehabilitation hospitals in the United States, treating more than 6000 injured or orphaned wild animals each year.
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Bird Collection University of California at Berkeley, CA. One of the biggest collections in the US, with 174000+ specimens. Well-illustrated web pages but little data online.
• National Library for the Environment A a project of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, a national non-profit which seeks to improve the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues. The on-line library aims to address the need for objective, scientifically sound information. It will eventually include several on-line components including Congressional Research Service Reports, In Depth Issues in the Environment, Population and Environment Linkages
• Ornithological Artist Registry is a resource for researchers seeking original art to accompany their publications. The registry aims to encourage the creation of great, biologically informative bird art, to expand the publication and exhibition of high-end images, and to broaden the audience interested in learning about advances in bird biology and challenges to conservation efforts.
• Peabody Museum Ornithology Collection Yale University, New Haven, CT. A comprehensive ornithology collection for North America, with international significance in several areas. Includes 100000+ skin, 9000+ skeletal and 13000+ pickled (wet preserves) specimens. Overall, the collection contains material for more than 6500 species, over 70 percent of the birds of the world.
• Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences The Ornithology Dept of the Academy's Biodiversity Group jointly publishes (with the American Ornithologists' Union) Birds of North America, the encyclopedic reference series on all the species of birds that breed in North America. Also the source of VIREO (see below).
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Washington, DC. All about this interesting research center, with a number of fact sheets - for instance on migrant land birds in the Andes.
• Slater Museum, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington. Bird Biodiversity - keys, images, specimen lists. Ornithology collection (gopher) - 21500 (15500 skins, 1500 skeletons, 3200 extended wings, and 4500 egg sets)
• University of Alaska Museum Ornithology Collection Database With emphasis on the birds of northwestern-most North America, including those endemic to Beringia and those of the circumpolar North, the Ornithology Collection is the broadest synoptic series in existence of avian material from Alaska. 6700 study skins, 500+ skeletons and 300 avian genetic samples in the Alaska Frozen Tissue Collection. A summary database is available for interrogation.
• University of California Museum of Paleontology, Aves: The Birds, Berkeley. Educational pages about the vertebrate class Aves which includes ... birds. Four sections: Fossil Record, Life History and Ecology, Systematics, More on Morphology.
• VIREO The world's most comprehensive collection of bird photographs; includes over 85000 photographs of 5732 species of birds. VIREO was established in 1979 to create a centralized, well curated collection of bird photographs accessible for scientific and public use.

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