{"id":427,"date":"2024-10-04T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/?page_id=427"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:28:11","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/research-collections\/birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-472\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-792x446.png\" alt=\"Study skins of Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) from Whitman County, Washington\" class=\"wp-image-472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-792x446.png 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-396x223.png 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/BirdBanner-198x111.png 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Study skins of Northern Flickers (<em>Colaptes auratus<\/em>) from Whitman County, Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our collection of 16,700 birds includes approximately 14,000 study skins plus tissue samples (stored at -80F), 1,600 fluid-preserved birds, over 1,000 skeletons, 250 sets of eggs, a small number of nests, more than 1,000 wings, and some digestive contents\/organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection comprises about 1,050 species across 146 families. Half of our bird collection is from Washington (8,400 specimens). We have a notable number of birds from Idaho (2,500 specimens) and the Northern Mariana Islands (350 specimens), though our collection includes birds from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our bird collection can be viewed on Arctos: <a href=\"https:\/\/arctos.database.museum\/crcm_bird\">Our bird collection on the Arctos website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our collection of 16,700 birds includes approximately 14,000 study skins plus tissue samples (stored at -80F), 1,600 fluid-preserved birds, over 1,000 skeletons, 250 sets of eggs, a small number of nests, more than 1,000 wings, and some digestive contents\/organs. This collection comprises about 1,050 species across 146 families. Half of our bird collection is from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11284,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/427\/revisions\/651"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}