The Department of Ornithology maintains one of the largest collections of bird specimens in the world. The research collections of the Department number nearly one million specimens; these include skins, skeletons, alcoholic preparations, eggs, nests, and tissue samples for molecular biochemical studies. A large number of type specimens and rare or extinct species are also found in its collections.
American Museum of Natural History - Birds. Occurrence dataset (ID: 3111778b-a81c-4b86-9461-2bd97152ba7f) accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, /portal, 2024-05-03).