The bird collection at the collection at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) - Museum Koenig Bonn contains comprises about 80,000 - 85,000 individuals, most of them (76,000) are specimens, the rest are mounted preparations. The collection is complemented by skeletons and specimens in alcohol (ca. 3,000). In addition, the egg collection encompasses 60,000 single objects including ca. 1,700 nests. In 2003, we began to build up a collection of tissue samples which is continuously growing
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fe28c4f1-7229-43b4-8f37-3fb406635d4d
Homepage: https://bonn.leibniz-lib.de/en/research/collections/ornithology
Citation: Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). ZFMK Ornithology collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/zd8hju accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-10-24.