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Additional fragmentation occurred in the late 1960s - early 1970s when half of the collection was transferred to Louvain-la-Neuve following the split of the Catholic University of Leuven into two independent sister universities: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (currently KU Leuven) and the French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain (currently UCLouvain).\n\nThe ornithological collection contains of over 1.990 mounted birds in addition to a large collection of bird clutches. It includes a large donation by the Pas-Wegner family to the Biology Department of KU Leuven in 2020 consisting of 1.324 mounted birds collected by Frans Pas (1935-2020) and his father Jan Pas (1905-1988). Father and son mostly collected specimens in the Campine area across the Dutch-Belgian border, but birds from other areas in Europe (incl. Greenland) are present as well. Their collection furthermore contains a total of over 140 specimens purchased from Danish taxidermists Jørgen Kofoed, Thorkil Duch and Christian Aboe Sørensen, as well as from the German company A. Schlüter KG. 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