Museum Collections and Contacts
Birds | Mammals | Herps | Fish | Invertebrates | Contacts
The UNC Ornithology collection
Our collection includes approximately 1700 specimens. Most are species native to Colorado, but the collection also houses some specimens from around the world, including over 550 hummingbird skins collected prior to 1907.
Ornithology web sites
The UNC Mammal collection
The museum houses about 1500 mammal specimens, most collected in the Western United States.
Mammal web sites
- The Marine Mammal Center
- BIOSYS Internet Resource Guide for Mammals
- The American Society of Mammalogists
- The Hall of Mammals
- Endangered Species Act Information
The UNC Herpetology collection
Our collection includes approximately 1400 specimens, the majority of which are reptiles, particularly snakes
Herpetology websites
- General information and more links
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
- Declining amphibian populations task force
- HerpNET
The UNC Osteichthyes & Chondrichthys collections
We have a teaching collection of Colorado fishes.
The UNC invertebrate collections
We have a teaching collection of invertebrate speciments, including a nice collection of mollusk shells.
Contacts
For more information, please contact one of the museum curators:
Dr. Lauryn Benedict
- lauryn.benedict@unco.edu
- 970-351-3364 (Tel)
Dr. Stephen Mackessy
- stephen.mackessy@unco.edu
- 970-351-2335 (Tel)
