Eggs from the Africa Museum's bird collection

Our bird collection, almost entirely from Africa, contains more than 150,000 bird specimens, including bellows, alcohol-preserved specimens, stuffed birds and skeletons, as well as eggs and bird nests.

The first bird specimens in our ornithology collection date back to 1897, but it was not until the 1910s-1920s, when Belgian zoologist Henri Schouteden started working in the scientific services at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, that bird registers as we display them here were created. 

These registers were now digitised because they contain valuable information about our ornithological collection (localities, collectors, special observations, etc.), which can be added to our digital databases, which can be used for scientific research.