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Ornithology (CAS-ORN)

Contacts: Moe Flannery, mflannery@calacademy.org
Homepage: http://www.calacademy.org/scientists/ornithology-mammalogy
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 December 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences
Address:
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
San Francisco, CA   94118
United States
Collection Statistics
  • 99,584 specimen records
  • 66,908 (67%) georeferenced
  • 91,749 (92%) identified to species
  • 167 families
  • 1,164 genera
  • 2,462 species
  • 4,725 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adelomyia (6)
  • Aglaeactis (1)
  • Aglaiocercus (12)
  • Amazilia (148)
  • Anthracothorax (7)
  • Archilochus (133)
  • Atthis (2)
  • Augastes (1)
  • Boissonneaua (25)
  • Calliphlox (2)
  • Calothorax (3)
  • Calypte (656)
  • Campylopterus (14)
  • Chaetocercus (3)
  • Chalcostigma (8)
  • Chalybura (4)
  • Chlorostilbon (17)
  • Chrysolampis (5)
  • Chrysuronia (2)
  • Clytolaema (3)
  • Coeligena (52)
  • Colibri (24)
  • Cyanophaia (1)
  • Cynanthus (31)
  • Damophila (4)
  • Discosura (4)
  • Doricha (1)
  • Elvira (5)
  • Ensifera (2)
  • Eriocnemis (34)
  • Eugenes (37)
  • Eulampis (5)
  • Eupetomena (4)
  • Eupherusa (12)
  • Eutoxeres (1)
  • Florisuga (12)
  • Glaucis (1)
  • Haplophaedia (4)
  • Heliangelus (24)
  • Heliodoxa (10)
  • Heliomaster (13)
  • Heliothryx (4)
  • Hylocharis (42)
  • Klais (4)
  • Lafresnaya (6)
  • Lampornis (19)
  • Lamprolaima (2)
  • Lepidopyga (2)
  • Lesbia (14)
  • Lophornis (7)
  • Metallura (22)
  • Myrtis (3)
  • Ocreatus (4)
  • Opisthoprora (1)
  • Oreotrochilus (5)
  • Orthorhyncus (2)
  • Oxypogon (2)
  • Panterpe (2)
  • Patagona (3)
  • Phaethornis (10)
  • Polytmus (2)
  • Pterophanes (5)
  • Ramphodon (1)
  • Ramphomicron (6)
  • Selasphorus (421)
  • Sephanoides (3)
  • Stellula (86)
  • Stephanoxis (5)
  • Thalurania (6)
  • Threnetes (3)
  • Tilmatura (1)
  • Topaza (2)
  • Trochilus (3)
  • Urosticte (1)