Browse our digital library of type specimens!
Here you will find images and data about the original specimens that were used to describe new species. These specimens are part of the collection housed at the Bird Division in the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology.

Additional information about the type collection.

Browse the collection by country and author.


Orders of birds from which we have type specimens:
Rheiformes
Tinamiformes
Podicipediformes
Ciconiiformes
Falconiformes
Galliformes
Gruiformes

Charadriiformes

Columbiformes
Psittaciformes
Cuculiformes

Strigiformes

Caprimulgiformes

Apodiformes

Coraciiformes

Piciformes

Passeriformes
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