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Bell Museum birds (MMNH-Birds)

Records of zoological specimens at J. F. Bell Museum of Natural Hitory (University of Minnesota)
Contact: Dr. Keith Barker (barke042@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 June 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: J. F. Bell Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.
Collection Statistics
  • 48,470 specimen records
  • 34,082 (70%) georeferenced
  • 164 families
  • 904 genera
  • 1,983 species
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Arundinicola (2)
  • Atalotriccus (1)
  • Attila (55)
  • Camptostoma (3)
  • Capsiempis (1)
  • Cnemotriccus (1)
  • Cnipodectes (1)
  • Contopus (173)
  • Corythopis (1)
  • Elaenia (12)
  • Empidonax (1288)
  • Empidonomus (1)
  • Fluvicola (2)
  • Hemitriccus (1)
  • Laniocera (1)
  • Legatus (2)
  • Leptopogon (25)
  • Machetornis (1)
  • Megarynchus (22)
  • Mionectes (95)
  • Mitrephanes (6)
  • Muscisaxicola (1)
  • Myiarchus (192)
  • Myiobius (56)
  • Myiodynastes (25)
  • Myiopagis (10)
  • Myiornis (1)
  • Myiotheretes (1)
  • Myiozetetes (28)
  • Ochthoeca (5)
  • Oncostoma (1)
  • Onychorhynchus (9)
  • Ornithion (9)
  • Pachyramphus (53)
  • Phelpsia (1)
  • Pitangus (45)
  • Platyrinchus (82)
  • Pseudotriccus (1)
  • Pyrocephalus (48)
  • Pyrrhomyias (1)
  • Ramphotrigon (1)
  • Rhynchocyclus (40)
  • Rhytipterna (3)
  • Sayornis (120)
  • Serpophaga (1)
  • Silvicultrix (1)
  • Terenotriccus (1)
  • Tityra (44)
  • Todirostrum (6)
  • Tolmomyias (26)
  • Tyrannopsis (1)
  • Tyrannus (222)
  • Xenotriccus (1)
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