Data Providers

ORNIS currently has 47 data providers representing 42 institutions in 5 countries (see map):

Abbreviation
Institution

Approx. No.
Bird Specimens*

Provider
Installed
AKN
Avian Knowledge Network**
Ithaca, NY
Observational and monitoring data sets
20,124,420
Yes
AMNH
872,600
Yes
AMS
Australian Museum
Sidney, AUSTRALIA
70,000
Yes
ANSP
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
190,000
Yes
ASU
Arizona State University**
Tempe, AZ
500
Yes
ANWC
Australia National Wildlife Collection**
Australia
50,000
No
BELL
45,100
Yes
BLB
23,000
Yes
BPBM
19,852
Yes
CAS
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA
101,275
Yes
CMN
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa, CANADA
121,000
Yes
CNAV
Coleccion Nacional de Aves, Instituto de Biologia¡,Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico**
Mexico City, MEXICO
23,763
Yes
CRCM
Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University**
Pullman, WA
17,640
Yes
CUML
Cornell University-Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds
Ithaca, NY
160,000
Yes
CUMV
Cornell University-Museum of Vertebrates
Ithaca, NY
45,800
Yes
DMNH
Delaware Museum of Natural History
Wilmington, DE
82,596
Yes
FMNH
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, IL
423,900
Yes
GMNH
Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia**
Athens, GA
5,650
No
KU
Kansas University Natural History Museum
Lawrence, KS
100,000
Yes
ISU
John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections, Illinois State University**
Normal, IL
6,000
No
LACM
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Los Angeles, CA
114,450
Yes
LSU
Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science**
Baton Rouge, LA
174,000
Yes
MCZ
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
360,000
Yes
MHP
Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University**
Hays, KS
2300
Yes
MSB
Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
21,000
Yes
MSU
Michigan State University Museum
East Lansing, MI
12,800
Yes
MVZ
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California
Berkeley, CA
197,158
Yes
MZFC
Museo de Zoologia de la Facultad de Ciencias
UNAM, Mexico City, MEXICO
18,000
Yes
NYSM
New York State Museum**
Albany, NY
17,000
No
PSM
James R. Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
18,400
Yes
ROM
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, CANADA
214,000
Yes
SBMNH
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara, CA
24,100
Yes
SDMNH
San Diego Museum of Natural History
San Diego, CA
46,572
Yes
SNOMNH
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History**
Norman, OK
26,000
Yes
TCWC
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection**
College Station, TX
14,100
Yes
UA
University of Alberta Ornithology Collection
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
7,819
Yes
UAM
University of Alaska Museum of the North
Fairbanks, AK
7,066
Yes
UAZ
University of Arizona Bird Collection
Tucson, AZ
17,966
Yes
UCLA
University of California at Los Angeles (Dickey Collection)
Los Angeles, CA
41,325
Yes
UCM
University of Colorado Museum**
Boulder, CO
12,000
Yes
UMMZ
University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology
Ann Arbor, MI
207,887
Yes
UMNH
Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
20,000
Yes
UNSM
University of Nebraska State Museum**
Lincoln, NB
11,000
Yes
USNM
United States National Museum**
Washington, D.C.
625,000
Yes
UWBM
Burke Museum of Natural History, University of Washington
Seattle, WA
60,940
Yes
WFVZ
Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology
Camarillo, CA
254,000
Yes
YPM
Yale University Peabody Museum
New Haven, CT
136,080
Yes
ZIN
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences**
St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
No
 
* No. of specimens at time of proposal submission to National Science Foundation.
** Providers that were not in the original proposal.