[Nhcoll-l] What are the oldest bird collections in the USA, particularly in the state of Pennsylvania?

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Jorge

Depends on the specifics of your question.  Oldest based on oldest specimen or oldest based on inception?  If it is the former then you could do a search on www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org> for digitized data that would tell you what the oldest specimen is.  Note that this would only be the digitized component of collections but given that vertebrate collections are well digitized would get you pretty close.  If you questions is the latter, then that is a much harder prospect to answer but I would suspect that someone in the bird world would have a good idea.

Andy
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Andy Bentley
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From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] What are the oldest bird collections in the USA, particularly in the state of Pennsylvania?

Hello:

What are the oldest bird collections in the USA, particularly in the state of Pennsylvania? More broadly, how could anyone know the answer to this question?

Sincerely,

Jorge

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