Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” - Colección de Aves (MNHNSD-AVES)

The birds' collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-AVES) houses around 1090 specimens. These specimens belong to 62 families, 161 genera, and 212 species, of which 28 are endemics to Hispaniola Island. Of all registers, 99 % are identified to species level and around 510 registers have been digitized. Most of the records are from Hispaniola, specifically from the Dominican Republic, dating from 1970 to the present, however, the collection also contains a few specimens from the United States of America, South America, and the Caribbean countries which were received through donations. The birds’ orders represented in the collection are all those recorded from Hispaniola: Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Apodiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Cathartiformes, Charadriiformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, Cuculiformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Gruiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Piciformes, Podicipediformes, Psittaciformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes, and Trogoniformes.