Bell Museum birds (MMNH-Birds)

Records of bird specimens at the Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

Contact: Dr. Sushma Reddy, Breckenridge Chair of Ornithology (sreddy@umn.edu)

Home Page: https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/birds/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://bellatlas.umn.edu:443/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.

• 48,470 specimen records
• 34,082 (70%) georeferenced
• 164 families
• 904 genera
• 1,983 species