KU Leuven, Zoology Museum, Bird collection (Aves)

Occurrence Specimen
Versão mais recente published by KU Leuven on nov. 19, 2025 KU Leuven
Início:
https://blendeff.be/s/en/collection/MUD
Publication date:
19 de novembro de 2025
Published by:
KU Leuven
Licença:
CC0 1.0

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Descrição

The collection of the KU Leuven Zoology Museum is currently estimated to contain over 16.000 specimens. Its history is strongly entwined with that of the university and can be traced back to the first half of the 19th century when the remains of the zoological collection of the Old University (1425–1797) were brought together in the Cabinet of Natural History (Cabinet de l'Histoire Naturelle), located in the Collegium Regium. Allied bombing during WWII caused severe damage to the collection, resulting in the loss of many specimens. Additional fragmentation occurred in the late 1960s - early 1970s when half of the collection was transferred to Louvain-la-Neuve following the split of the Catholic University of Leuven into two independent sister universities: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (currently KU Leuven) and the French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain (currently UCLouvain). The ornithological collection contains of over 1.990 mounted birds in addition to a large collection of bird clutches. It includes a large donation by the Pas-Wegner family to the Biology Department of KU Leuven in 2020 consisting of 1.324 mounted birds collected by Frans Pas (1935-2020) and his father Jan Pas (1905-1988). Father and son mostly collected specimens in the Campine area across the Dutch-Belgian border, but birds from other areas in Europe (incl. Greenland) are present as well. Their collection furthermore contains a total of over 140 specimens purchased from Danish taxidermists Jørgen Kofoed, Thorkil Duch and Christian Aboe Sørensen, as well as from the German company A. Schlüter KG. In addition to the mounted birds collected by Frans and Jan Pas, the ornithological collection of the Zoology Museum contains around 670 mounted birds dating back to the 19th century and originating from more exotic locations, including Java and South America. Highlights of the ornithological collection include mounted specimens of the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) and Blue-grey Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), alongside the almost complete set of European birds from the Pas collection. Please note that the current version of this GBIF dataset only contains the mounted birds of the Pas collection.

Registros de Dados

Os dados deste recurso de ocorrência foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 1.323 registros.

Também existem 1 tabelas de dados de extensão. Um registro de extensão fornece informações adicionais sobre um registro do núcleo. O número de registros em cada tabela de dados de extensão é ilustrado abaixo.

Occurrence (core)
1323
Multimedia 
2804

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versões

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Direitos

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GBIF Registration

Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: ec836767-7df3-4b7e-bee4-63e1d3ee0bba.  KU Leuven publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Palavras-chave

Occurrence; Specimen; zoology; birds; ornithology; museum collection; taxidermy

Contatos

Ann Van Baelen
  • Provedor Dos Metadados ●
  • Ponto De Contato
Academic and Historical Heritage Office
Mario Driessen
  • Originador
Department of Biology, KU Leuven
Nathalie Poot
  • Originador
Academic and Historical Heritage Office
Luc Brendonck
  • Provedor Dos Metadados ●
  • Originador ●
  • Ponto De Contato
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation
Bert De Groef
  • Ponto De Contato
Kevin Kerckhofs
  • Ponto De Contato
Ann Van Baelen
  • Provedor Dos Metadados ●
  • Ponto De Contato
Bert De Groef
  • Ponto De Contato
Faculty of Science, KU Leuven
Kevin Kerckhofs
  • Ponto De Contato
Department of Biology, KU Leuven
Scientific Collections & Heritage, KU Leuven

Cobertura Geográfica

Worldwide with a focus on Europe and especially the Campine region along the Dutch-Belgian border.

Coordenadas delimitadoras Sul Oeste [33,833, -52,05], Norte Leste [78,157, 35,833]

Cobertura Taxonômica

Aves

Reino Animalia
Filo Chordata
Class Aves
Ordem Suliformes, Anseriformes, Galliformes, Pteroclidiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Gruiformes, Apodiformes, Cuculiformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Ciconiiformes, Falconiformes, Accipitriformes, Columbiformes, Charadriiformes, Bucerotiformes, Podicipediformes, Caprimulgiformes, Procellariiformes, Otidiformes, Strigiformes, Coraciiformes, Piciformes, Gaviiformes
Família Alcidae, Sylviidae, Upupidae, Phylloscopidae, Columbidae, Regulidae, Certhiidae, Aegithalidae, Emberizidae, Glareolidae, Picidae, Hydrobatidae, Fringillidae, Alcedinidae, Scolopacidae, Charadriidae, Gruidae, Recurvirostridae, Pteroclididae, Otididae, Phoenicopteridae, Phasianidae, Turdidae, Acrocephalidae, Caprimulgidae, Sulidae, Cinclidae, Laniidae, Paridae, Gaviidae, Ardeidae, Oriolidae, Anatidae, Troglodytidae, Laridae, Corvidae, Muscicapidae, Motacillidae, Procellariidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Cuculidae, Podicipedidae, Stercorariidae, Haematopodidae, Sittidae, Sturnidae, Pandionidae, Cettiidae, Coraciidae, Threskiornithidae, Passeridae, Calcariidae, Bombycillidae, Prunellidae, Accipitridae, Hirundinidae, Strigidae, Alaudidae, Passerellidae, Burhinidae, Remizidae, Panuridae, Falconidae, Apodidae, Tytonidae, Rallidae, Locustellidae, Cisticolidae, Ciconiidae, Meropidae

Cobertura Temporal

Data Inicial / Data final 1901-03-31 / 1985-05-10

Dados Sobre o Projeto

Title: DiSSCo Flanders Funder name: The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) Award number: I001721N Title: DiSSCo Flanders Funder name: The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) Award number: I001625N

Título DiSSCo Flanders
Identificador I001721N
Financiamento Flemish Governement (FWO)

O pessoal envolvido no projeto:

Luc Brendonck

Dados de Coleção

Nome da Coleção Pas Bird Collection

Metadados Adicionais

Acknowledgements
Identificadores alternativos https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=kul-bird-collection