egg collectors

Egg Collectors

  EGG COLLECTORS The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology houses collections of eggs, nests and study skins from different collectors, totaling just over four hundred individual collections. Many collectors were museum curators or owners, taxidermists, and experienced biologists whilst some were simply outdoorsman and hobbyists.  We are recording countries, states etc. where they lived and collected and years of collecting. Also, we recorded collections from other collectors they owned. We…

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Check our Databases online!

  To search our computerized data electronically, please click here (WFVZ Collections Online) with scans of more than 200,000 original data slips and 85,000 photographs of egg sets, supported by the National Science Foundation! Also, the WFVZ is collaborating with other museums in the U.S. so that our data are available via the Internet. Visit the…