New Brunswick Museum

Overview of collections area with vertebrate preparation area inset. Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 89.12 kb)

The New Brunswick Museum has extensive collections in three broad areas including natural science, human history, and fine and decorative arts. The museum also houses an extensive research library and archives. The NBM bird collection includes 10,000 or so specimens and is the largest ornithological research collection in the Atlantic region.

Tray of hummingbirds in cabinet Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 92.79 kb)

Specimens of the native Ruby-throated Hummingbird are well represented, as is a small collection of specimens collected on Smithsonian expeditions to South and Central America from 1859-1867. The collection includes 155 hummingbird skins, skeletons, fluid preserved specimens, eggs, and nests, as well observational records and photo-documentation. 17 species are represented.

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) (NBM 783) is the only breeding hummingbird in New Brunswick. Data on recent and historic hummingbird specimens in the NBM collection can be accessed via the museum website. Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 80.60 kb)	Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus) male (NBM 1302) . Jamaica. Collector: Dr. Henry Bryant; collected in the Caribbean in 1859. Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 81.79 kb)
Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) male (NBM 1324). Bogota, Colombia. Collector: Hon. A.A. Burton in 1867. Booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 121.10 kb)	Eastern Long-tailed Hermit (Phaethornis superciliosus) (NBM 1296). Guatemala City, Guatemala. Collector: Dr. van Patten; collected in Guatemala in 1867 Eastern Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus Credit: New Brunswick Museum (Size: 108.98 kb)