Pictured above are examples of Museum activity, including bird banding, teaching and biological inventories.
Welcome to the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology homepage!
MWFB News
- Check out the MWFB's new online Zazzle giftshop; proceeds benefit the MWFB.
- Curator, Andy Engilis, Jr. featured in February 24, 2009 California Aggie article on bird populations in jeopardy.
- MWFB part of $4 million grant to study biodiversity in Indonesia. Link to Dept. of Entomology press release. Link to UC Davis press release.
About Us
The MWFB is a vertebrate museum dedicated to education, outreach, conservation, and research. We are in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. For more information about the courses of the Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology major visit:
http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/UCDWebCatalog/programs/WFC/WFCcourses.html
Or search this section for information on our mission, history, staff, and location. You may also download a PDF file of the MWFB information pamphlet. Adobe Reader is required to view this file.
- Mission Statement
- History
- Staff
- Location --We are located on the University of California, Davis campus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology in the Academic Surge Building, room 1394. Click here for an interactive campus map, or here for a PDF map to the MWFB.
Collections
The Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology houses one of the most significant, modern collections of birds, mammals, and fish in California. With over 35,000 specimens the MWFB is among the top ten collections in California, and the third largest university-managed collection in the state. The specimens housed in the MWFB serve a unique role in California; in addition to traditional uses, they are used for graduate and undergraduate training, species identification workshops, and educational programs by federal, state, and local agency biologists.
Services and Loans
Specimen determinations, vertebrate inventories, specimen and tissue vouchers, freeze-dry capabilities, and specimen loans are all services provided at the MWFB. Explore the links below for more information or contact our Collections Manager, Irene E. Engilis at mwfb@ucdavis.edu.
Research
Our goal is to continue integrating vertebrate specimen-based research with technical services and education, which establishes the MWFB as a key facility in California addressing environmental issues such as wildlife conservation, endangered species recovery, native fish decline, landscape ecology, systematics, and biodiversity. We will accomplish our goal through increased partnership building, networking, education and training of future and current agency biologists, and supporting cutting edge research and biotic inventories.
- Putah Creek Biomonitoring
- California State Parks
- Hawaiian Duck Project
- April 18, 2009. See MWFB Curator, Andy Engilis, Jr. in a series of public service announcements on the plight and conservation of the endangered Hawaiian Duck, koloa maoli. Click here to watch.
- Chile
- Washington
- Heronry in UCD Arboretum Shields Grove
- Freeze Dried Specimen Study
- Publications and Reports
Outreach
Outreach and education is an expanding program of the MWFB. The MWFB has continued outreach to science and non-science students, professionals, primary school groups, and the general public. The strength of our outreach activities is the museum’s internship program designed to recruit and expose UC Davis students to museum science and specimen based field research. For information regarding internships contact our Collections Manager, Irene Engilis. Please visit our Outreach page or contact our Education and Outreach Specialist, Tabatha Yang for information about tours and outreach.
Archives
In addition to storing vertebrate materials, MWFB houses a library of natural history literature and an archive of historic vertebrate records, including the Sacramento Audubon Society historic bird records.
Contributions and Gifts
The MWFB is a charitable organization that accepts gifts and donations in support of museum activities and management. Please contact the Museum Curator, Andrew Engilis, Jr. at 530-752-0364 or mwfb@ucdavis.edu for more information on charitable giving.
Gift Shop -- Clicking here will redirect you to the Museum of WFB's Zazzle gallery / giftshop.
Also available is the first in a series of Museum of WFB t-shirts featuring Californian endemic wildlife. All proceeds are applied to maintenance of the MWFB collections. Click here to view design. E-mail or call in your order today at mwfb@ucdavis.edu or 530-754-8813.