Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection

The Division of Birds houses the third largest scientific bird collection in the United States. The main collection contains over 480,000 specimens, including 600 holotypes, 70,000 skeletons, and 7,000 fluid specimens. In addition, the division houses 21,000 egg sets and 200 nests. The scope of the collection is world-wide; all bird families but one are represented, as are 90% of the world's genera and species. Included among its many historically and scientifically valuable individual collections are the H. B. Conover Game Bird Collection, Good's and Van Someren's African collections, C. B. Cory's West Indian collection, the Bishop Collection of North American birds, a large portion of W. Koelz's material from India and the Middle East, and many separate collections from South America, Africa (Hoogstraal from Egypt) and the Philippines (Rabor).

鸟类学部分收藏了美国第三大科学鸟类藏品。主要藏品中包含超过480,000件标本，包括600个正型标本、70,000具骨骼和7,000个液体标本。此外，该部门还收藏有21,000个蛋套和200个巢穴。藏品范围遍及全球；除了一个鸟类科以外，所有鸟类科均有所代表，且涵盖了世界上90%的属和种。其中，众多具有历史和科学价值的独立藏品包括H. B. Conover狩猎鸟类藏品、Good's和Van Someren的非洲藏品、C. B. Cory的西印度群岛藏品、北美鸟类主教藏品、W. Koelz来自印度和中东的大量材料，以及来自南美洲、非洲（埃及的Hoogstraal藏品）和菲律宾（Rabor藏品）的众多独立藏品。