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| 20-May-08 || Bird || undet. Aves || 3 || good || loc. || Frozen
 
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| 14-Oct-05 || Hairy Woodpecker || Picoides villosus || 1 || good || yes || Frozen
 
| 14-Oct-05 || Hairy Woodpecker || Picoides villosus || 1 || good || yes || Frozen
 
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| 9-Oct-05 || Scarlet Tanager || Piranga olivacea || 2 || xgood || yes || Frozen
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| 9-Oct-05 || Scarlet Tanager || Piranga olivacea || 2 || xgood || yes || Drying
 
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| 30-Sep-05 || imm. Cardinal || Cardinalis cardinalis || 3 || good || yes || Frozen
 
| 30-Sep-05 || imm. Cardinal || Cardinalis cardinalis || 3 || good || yes || Frozen
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| 2004-2005 || Ruffed Grouse || Bonasa umbellus || 3 || good || loc. || Frozen
 
| 2004-2005 || Ruffed Grouse || Bonasa umbellus || 3 || good || loc. || Frozen
 
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| 10-Dec-04 || Titmouse || Baeolophus bicolor? || 2 || good || yes || Frozen
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| 10-Dec-04 || Tufted Titmouse || Baeolophus bicolor || 2 || good || yes || Drying
 
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| 21-Sep-04 || Rose-breasted Grosbeak || Pheucticus ludovicianus || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| 21-Sep-04 || Rose-breasted Grosbeak || Pheucticus ludovicianus || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
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| 2-Sep-01 || Northern Flicker || Colaptes auratus || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| 2-Sep-01 || Northern Flicker || Colaptes auratus || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 5-Aug-01 || Black-capped Chickadee || Poecile atricapillus || 2 || good || yes || Frozen
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| 5-Aug-01 || Black-capped Chickadee || Poecile atricapillus || 2 || good || yes || Drying
 
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| 25-Jul-01 || Great Blue Heron || Ardea herodias || 2 || xgood || loc. || Frozen
 
| 25-Jul-01 || Great Blue Heron || Ardea herodias || 2 || xgood || loc. || Frozen
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| 9-Jun-01 || Scarlet Tanager || Piranga olivacea || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| 9-Jun-01 || Scarlet Tanager || Piranga olivacea || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 8-May-01 || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| 8-May-01 || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 5-May-01 || Common Yellowthroat || Geothlypis trichas || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| 5-May-01 || Common Yellowthroat || Geothlypis trichas || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
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| Fall 2000 || Black-throated Green Warbler || Dendroica virens || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| Fall 2000 || Black-throated Green Warbler || Dendroica virens || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 26-Oct-00 || Sparrow || undet. Passeridae || 3 || good || - || Drying
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| 26-Oct-00 || White-Throated Sparrow || Zonotrichia albicollis || 3 || good || - || Drying
 
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| 3-Jul-00 || Warbler || undet. Passeri || 3 || fair || loc. || Frozen
 
| 3-Jul-00 || Warbler || undet. Passeri || 3 || fair || loc. || Frozen
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| 26-Apr-00 || Hermit Thrush || Catharus guttatus || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
| 26-Apr-00 || Hermit Thrush || Catharus guttatus || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 22-Jan-00 || Chickadee || Poecile atricapillus || 2 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| 22-Jan-00 || Chickadee || Poecile atricapillus || 2 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| 26-Dec-99 || Great Horned Owl || Bubo virginianus || 2 || good || loc. || Frozen
 
| 26-Dec-99 || Great Horned Owl || Bubo virginianus || 2 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| - || Green Winged Teal || Anas carolinensis || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Green Winged Teal || Anas carolinensis || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
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| - || Black throated Blue Warbler || Dendroica caerulescens || 1 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Black throated Blue Warbler || Dendroica caerulescens || 1 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Black and White Warbler || Mniotilta varia || 1 || good || - || Frozen
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| 1-Mar-00 || Black and White Warbler || Mniotilta varia || 1 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Northern Parula || Parula americana || 1 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| - || Northern Parula || Parula americana || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| - || Northern Waterthrush || Seiurus noveboracensis || 1 || good || - || Frozen
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| May-17 || Northern Waterthrush || Seiurus noveboracensis || 1 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Ring-necked Dove || Streptopelia capicola || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Ring-necked Dove || Streptopelia capicola || 1 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Wren (carolina?) || Thryothorus ludovicianus || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Wren (carolina?) || Thryothorus ludovicianus || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
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| - || Red-eyed Vireo || Vireo olivaceus || 1 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| - || Red-eyed Vireo || Vireo olivaceus || 1 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| - || Yellow Billed Sandpiper || Yellow Billed Sandpiper || 1 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Yellow Billed Sandpiper || Yellow Billed Sandpiper || 1 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Sharp Shinned Hawk || Accipiter striatus || 3 || xgood || - || Frozen
 
| - || Sharp Shinned Hawk || Accipiter striatus || 3 || xgood || - || Frozen
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| - || Cedar Waxwing || Bombycilla cedrorum || 3 || skin only fair || - || Frozen
 
| - || Cedar Waxwing || Bombycilla cedrorum || 3 || skin only fair || - || Frozen
 
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| - || Cedar Waxwing || Bombycilla cedrorum || 3 || good || - || Frozen
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| 10/10/04 || Cedar Waxwing || Bombycilla cedrorum || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| - || Cedar Waxwing (x9) || Bombycilla cedrorum (x9) || 3 || good/excellent || - || Frozen
 
| - || Cedar Waxwing (x9) || Bombycilla cedrorum (x9) || 3 || good/excellent || - || Frozen
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| - || Red Tailed Hawk || Buteo jamaicensis || 3 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Red Tailed Hawk || Buteo jamaicensis || 3 || good || - || Frozen
 
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| - || American Goldfinch || Carduelis tristis || 3 || good || loc. || Frozen
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| - || American Goldfinch || Carduelis tristis || 3 || good || loc. || Drying
 
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| - || Warbler sp. || Dendroica sp. || 3 || good || - || Frozen
 
| - || Warbler sp. || Dendroica sp. || 3 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Rose Breasted Grosbeak || Pheucticus ludovicianus || 3 || good || - || Frozen
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| - || Rose Breasted Grosbeak || Pheucticus ludovicianus || 3 || good || - || Drying
 
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| - || Peep? || undet. Charadiiformes || 3 || fair/poor || - || Frozen
 
| - || Peep? || undet. Charadiiformes || 3 || fair/poor || - || Frozen
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| - || Veery || Catharus fuscescens || 2 || good || - || Drying
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| - || Wood Thrush || Hylocichla mustelina || 2 || fair || - || Drying
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| - || Wood Thrush || Hylocichla mustelina || 2 || fair || loc. || Drying
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| - || Cedar Waxwing || Bombycilla cedrorum || 3 || good || - || Drying
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| 21-May-02 || European Starling || Sturnus vulgaris || 2 || good || - || Drying
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| 12-Jan-04 || Tufted Titmouse || Baeolophus bicolor || 2 || good || yes || Drying
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| 2006 || Ovenbird || Seiurus aurocapillus || 2 || fair || loc. || Drying
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| 08-14-08 || Wood Thrush || Hylocichla mustelina || 2 || fair || loc. || Drying
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Revision as of 13:53, 9 April 2009

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Collection Manager: Susan Hochgraf

Office: BioPhysics 127

Office Phone: 486-8945

Email: susan.hochgraf@uconn.edu

Preparators: Alejandro Rico Guevara, Jorge deLeon, Margaret Rubega



What To Do If You Find a Dead Bird, and Want to Donate It to the UConn Research Collection

Our collection of bird skins, tissues and bones is currently growing largely through salvage: we accept birds found dead by members of the public. These specimens add to the "library of birdlife" we maintain. Your donations make it possible for future researchers to investigate the bird populations of Connecticut.

If you find a dead bird, the very first thing to do is to determine if it is fresh enough to make a useful specimen. A bird that hasn't been dead for long will be round, not flattened or sagging; the eyes will be full and still moist; the feathers will not fall out when you handle the bird; the body will not smell. In contrast, a specimen that has already begun to decay will be collapsed, and may be oozing fluids; the eyes will be sunken and dry-looking; the feathers will be loosely attached and fall out easily when tugged, or when you handle the bird; there may be insects (ants, maggots) on or in the specimen; and the body will smell bad.

Specimens showing advanced signs of decay are best left where they are. Specimens in good condition should be sealed in a plastic bag (a ziploc with the air squeezed out of it is ideal) with a note containing the following information: your name and contact information; the location (at least town) where the bird was found; the date; and any information you may have about the bird (e.g., how it died - "Hit a window"). If you have the means to measure the bird's weight at the time you picked it up, that information is also very helpful. Once the bird is sealed in a plastic bag, PUT IT IN THE FREEZER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Freezing the body arrests the process of decay, and maximizes the likelihood we can prepare the specimen in a way that will preserve it.

The collection manager works part time (one day per week); she is in the collection on Thursdays. Accordingly, Thursdays are the best days to bring a specimen you wish to donate to the collection. You can call the manager at 860-486-8945 to ensure that someone will be present to take the specimen from you at the time you are due to arrive. If you cannot bring your donation by on a Thursday, contact someone in the Rubega lab at 486-3839 or 486-0309 to arrange a meeting to drop the specimen off.


Inventory of Donated Specimens

(as specimens are prepared, they will move off this list and onto the collection database )

Date Donated Common name Species Prep Priority Score Condition / Comments Data Status
20-May-08 Bird undet. Aves 3 good loc. Frozen
24-Mar-08 Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperi 1 good yes Frozen
22-Dec-07 Canada Goose Branta canadensis 1 good loc. Frozen
3-Apr-07 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 3 good yes Frozen
22-Jan-07 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura 3 good yes Frozen
15-Aug-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
15-Aug-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
30-Jun-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
30-Jun-06 Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina 3 good loc. Frozen
1-Jun-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
23-May-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
23-May-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
23-May-06 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Frozen
14-Oct-05 Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus 1 good yes Frozen
9-Oct-05 Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea 2 xgood yes Drying
30-Sep-05 imm. Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 3 good yes Frozen
2004-2005 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus 3 good loc. Frozen
10-Dec-04 Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor 2 good yes Drying
21-Sep-04 Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus 3 good loc. Drying
2-Aug-04 Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus 1 good loc. Frozen
18-May-04 Rose Breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus 3 good/excellent loc. Drying
13-Apr-03 White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis 2 good - Frozen
7-Jun-02 undet. Passerine undet. Passerine 3 xgood yes Frozen
29-May-02 Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis 1 good loc. Frozen
10-May-02 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus 3 xgood loc. Frozen
20-Apr-02 Wren (carolina?) Thryothorus ludovicianus 1 good loc. Frozen
17-Mar-02 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus 3 good loc. Frozen
9-Sep-01 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good loc. Drying
2-Sep-01 Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus 3 good loc. Drying
5-Aug-01 Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus 2 good yes Drying
25-Jul-01 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias 2 xgood loc. Frozen
9-Jun-01 Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea 2 good loc. Drying
8-May-01 Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus 2 good loc. Drying
5-May-01 Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas 1 good loc. Drying
Fall 2000 Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens 1 good loc. Drying
26-Oct-00 White-Throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis 3 good - Drying
3-Jul-00 Warbler undet. Passeri 3 fair loc. Frozen
13-Jun-00 Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio 3 good loc. Frozen
26-Apr-00 Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus 2 good loc. Drying
22-Jan-00 Chickadee Poecile atricapillus 2 good loc. Drying
26-Dec-99 Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus 2 good loc. Frozen
9-Sep-99 Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio 3 good loc. Frozen
10-Sep-97 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 3 good - Drying
2-Jun-94 Redpoll Carduelis sp. 3 good loc. Frozen
31-Dec-93 Sharp Shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus 3 good loc. Frozen
7/13/* Thrush? undet. Turdidae 3 good yes Drying
- Green Winged Teal Anas carolinensis 1 good - Frozen
- Black throated Blue Warbler Dendroica caerulescens 1 good - Drying
1-Mar-00 Black and White Warbler Mniotilta varia 1 good - Drying
- Northern Parula Parula americana 1 good loc. Drying
May-17 Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis 1 good - Drying
- Ring-necked Dove Streptopelia capicola 1 good - Frozen
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor 1 good - Frozen
- Wren (carolina?) Thryothorus ludovicianus 1 good - Frozen
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus 1 good loc. Drying
- Yellow Billed Sandpiper Yellow Billed Sandpiper 1 good - Frozen
- Owl (Grt. Horned?) Bubo virginianus 2 fair - Frozen
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus 2 good - Frozen
- Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia 2 good - Frozen
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus 2 good loc. Frozen
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus 2 good - Drying
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus 2 good - Drying
- Sharp Shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus 3 xgood - Frozen
- Sharp Shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus 3 good - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Aves Aves 3 no skin/no head - Frozen
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum 3 skin only fair - Frozen
10/10/04 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum 3 good loc. Drying
- Cedar Waxwing (x9) Bombycilla cedrorum (x9) 3 good/excellent - Frozen
- Red Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis 3 good - Frozen
- Red Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis 3 good - Frozen
- American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis 3 good loc. Drying
- Warbler sp. Dendroica sp. 3 good - Frozen
- Screech Owl Megascops sp. 3 good - Frozen
- Screech Owl Megascops sp. 3 good - Frozen
- Rose Breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus 3 good - Drying
- Peep? undet. Charadiiformes 3 fair/poor - Frozen
- Hawk/Falcon undet. Falconiformes 3 skin only fair - Frozen
- Hawk/Falcon undet. Falconiformes 3 good - Frozen
- Gull sp. undet. Laridae 3 good - Frozen
- Veery Catharus fuscescens 2 good - Drying
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina 2 fair - Drying
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina 2 fair loc. Drying
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum 3 good - Drying
21-May-02 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris 2 good - Drying
12-Jan-04 Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor 2 good yes Drying
2006 Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus 2 fair loc. Drying
08-14-08 Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina 2 fair loc. Drying


Useful and Amusing Links

Feather Identification Resource Online! The Feather Atlas of North American Birds provided high-resolution scans of flight feathers of the major groups of birds; useful for comparison with found feathers whose origin you aren't sure of.

Images of Bird Wings Online. The Slater Museum, at the University of Puget Sound, provides high-resolution images of their entire collection of spread (open) bird wings. Useful for studying flight style as a function of wing morphology.

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