Ornithology Collection NRM
type: Dataset
description: The bird collection is among the largest in the world. The material includes skins, skeletons, alcohol preparations, eggs, as well as blood and tissue samples. The collection of skins is one of the world's largest and most species-rich, with 65% of the world's species represented. The skeleton collection, on the other hand, is relatively incomplete because it was more common to put whole birds in alcohol during collection trips in the past, rather than skeletonizing the animals. The last major review of bird types at the Swedish Museum of Natural History was made by Nils Gyldenstolpe in 1926, and the list includes a total of 283 types.
contributor: Ulf Johansson
contributor: Manash Shah
  type: Person
  affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History
contributor: Kevin Holston
  type: Person
  affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History
creative work status: completed
  type: DefinedTerm
  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Ulf Johansson
date modified: 2026-08-23
date published: 2024-12-18
language: English
keywords: Biological Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 106
keywords: Occurrence
keywords: Specimen
keywords: OCCURRENCE
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: Swedish Museum of Natural History
version: 0

PropertyValue
property ID: DOI
value: 10.15468/7JC4XQ

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property ID: UUID

Ulf Johansson
type: Person
affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History

Swedish Museum of Natural History
type: Organization

English
type: Language
alternate name: eng