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University of Illinois Museum of Natural History Ornithology Collection (UIMNH-O)

Contacts: Dr. Kevin P. Johnson, kjohnson@inhs.illinois.edu
Homepage: http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/birds
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 August 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Cite this collection:
University of Illinois Museum of Natural History Ornithology Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 5f9acefe-d827-44b8-ae15-91e9680e7f1e) accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2024-12-11).
Collection Statistics
  • 5,413 specimen records
  • 0 georeferenced
  • 5,400 (100%) identified to species
  • 75 families
  • 325 genera
  • 505 species
  • 1,142 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
  • Actitis (6)
  • Aphriza (1)
  • Arenaria (27)
  • Bartramia (5)
  • Calidris (102)
  • Catoptrophorus (8)
  • Heteroscelus (8)
  • Limnodromus (12)
  • Limosa (14)
  • Micropalama (7)
  • Numenius (15)
  • Phalaropus (25)
  • Scolopax (6)
  • Tringa (29)
  • Tryngites (2)