The WFVZ Bird Museum and Research Center publishes a free blog each month to give our Members, Board of Directors, Volunteers, Associates, and the community more insight into our work at the museum, out in the field, and interesting bird and conservation facts and news! Our Bird Museum Blogs are links and open to a…
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.…
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…