Electronic inventory of European bird collections
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305 Institutions
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Institution Name 305 |
City 287 |
Country 44 |
 Skins3,876,694 |
 Egg Sets 684,489 |
 Skeletons 286,249 |
 Mounts 286,142 |
 Spirit 84,577 |
 Nests 30,127 |
 Other 219,205 |
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| Zoologisches Museum der Christian- Albrechts-Universität (ZMK) | Kiel | Germany | 7,000 | n/a | 50,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NRM) | Stockholm | Sweden | 116,000 | 29,000 | 26,000 | 8,000 | 1,700 | 500 | n/a |
| Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg (SMF for co) | Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 90,000 | 5,050 | 17,000 | n/a | 3,375 | n/a | n/a |
| The Natural History Museum (BMNH or NHM) | Tring | United Kingdom | 750,000 | 200,000 | 15,187 | 6,000 | 17,135 | 4,000 | n/a |
| Zoologisk Museum (ZMUC) | Copenhagen | Denmark | 97,000 | 17,000 | 14,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | n/a | 20,000 |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NMW) | Vienna / Wien | Austria | 95,000 | 10,000 | 11,200 | 10,700 | 300 | 1,000 | 6,100 |
| Museum für Naturkunde (ZMB or ISZ) | Berlin | Germany | 140,000 | 0 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 4,000 | 1,500 | n/a |
| Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) | Paris | France | 161,000 | 5,000 | 8,000 | n/a | c. 2,000 | n/a | 300 |
| Naturhistoriska Museet (GNM) | Gothenburg | Sweden | 25,000 | 10,000 | 8,000 | 3,548 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Center (RMNH) | Leiden | Netherlands | c. 170,000 | 0 | 7,700 | c. 55,000 | 1,200 | c. 3,500 | n/a |
| Institut für Zoologie (IZH) | Halle | Germany | 9,063 | 20,000 | 6,300 | 2,100 | 0 | > 100 | n/a |
| House of Bird Research | Christiansfeld | Denmark | 6,890 | n/a | 6,243 | n/a | 300 | 6 | 3,000 |
| National Museums of Scotland (RSM/ NMSE) | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 62,000 | 45,000 | 6,000 | n/a | > 200 | 400 | n/a |
| Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde (SMNS) | Stuttgart | Germany | 70,000 | 10,000 | 6,000 | 12,500 | 350 | 1,000 | 10,500 |
| Laboratory of Paleoherpetology and Paleo-ornithology (PIN RAS) | Moscow / Moskva | Russia | 117,000 | n/a | 5,000 | n/a | 70 | n/a | n/a |
| Natuurmuseum Rotterdam (NMR) | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 2,200 | 500 | 5,000 | n/a | 300 | n/a | 50 |
| Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC) (MNCN) | Madrid | Spain | 19,800 | 161 | 4,122 | 2,644 | 3,404 | 247 | 13,084 |
| Universitetsmuseet i Bergen (ZMUB) | Bergen | Norway | 6,488 | 2,659 | 4,076 | 2,928 | 418 | n/a | n/a |
| Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum (ZMH) | Hamburg | Germany | 30,000 | 2,000 | 4,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | 20,000 |
| Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden | Dresden | Germany | 67,000 | 16,000 | > 3,000 | 7,800 | > 100 | > 950 | 7,700 |
| Vychodoslovenské Muzéum Kosice (VSM) | Kosice | Slovakia | 2,000 | 1,200 | 3,000 | 1,000 | 50 | n/a | n/a |
| Zaklad Zoologii Systematycznej I Doswiadczalnej (ISEA) | Krakow | Poland | 1,400 | 2,900 | 3,000 | n/a | n/a | 300 | n/a |
| Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum (SNMBG) | Braunschweig | Germany | 30,000 | 10,300 | 2,800 | 3,000 | 300 | 700 | n/a |
| Zoologicheskii Institut (ZISP) | St Petersburg / Sankt-Peterburg | Russia | 170,000 | n/a | 2,700 | n/a | 7,500 | n/a | n/a |
| Museo Zoologico de ‘La Specola’ (MZUF) | Florence / Firenze | Italy | 18,000 | 350 | 2,500 | n/a | 300 | 100 | n/a |