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Curator: Prof. DSc Zlatozar Boev

Address:
National Museum of Natural History
1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

phone: (+359 87) 7089048
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Birds — Palaeornithological and Archaeornithological Collection

Birds — Palaeornithological and Archaeornithological Collection

It numbers 18418 items of over of 120 localities mainly from Bulgaria, but also from Azerbaijan, Greece, Hungary, Namibia, and New Zealand, dated Middle Miocene to subrecent.

Contains the holotypes of 4 genera, 33 species, and 1 subspecies of fossil birds, described from Bulgaria and Greece.

It was established by Prof. Zlatozar Boev in 1980.

It is stored in a part of the Birds Hall in the main building of the museum.