NHM Birdwing collection on Data Portal website.

[nomad]

I see that many of the Birdwings, including much historical material is now viewable on the NHM Website Date Portal. An article here

naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2019/02/08/digitising-some-of-the-most-endangered-butterflies-on-earth-digital-collections-programme/

[bobw]

I remember Peter being in the collections for a few months in the summer, in fact I had to identify a few drawers of mixed Troides for him.  This will be an invaluable resource for researchers.

[Adam Cotton]

Are the photos publicly available online? I couldn't find a link in the article, and the one at the bottom is dead.

Adam.

[nomad]

Hi Adam. Yes they are all online, just put in Data Portal nhm (link below), click on entomology, type in a search species, and then click on the Gallery, if they have images of a species.

data.nhm.ac.uk/

Here is the link to the Ornithoptera alexandrae, I tried a few different species, and they are all online to view.

data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/56e711e6-c847-4f99-915a-6894bb5c5dea/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb?q=ornithoptera+alexandrae&view_id=203a0ae5-6a14-480a-a407-27eeb9373858&filters=collectionCode%3Abmnh%28e%29&field=associatedMediaCount&value=


A number of Delias types etc, are also now online to view.

[exoticimports]

Thanks for the link.

Noting the article cites specimens seized by UK Customs as having deficient data, and how important data is. Ironically if UK Customs hadn’t stolen these specimens undoubtedly they would still carry the all important data!

Chuck