“…All these issues are more relevant when it is considered that IAvH-CT is focused on a megadiverse country, and that the policies of Colombia (e.g., Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2013a; Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2013b) do not allow the existence of a similar collection in other country. In fact, the bird samples (a large part of them associated to specimen vouchers in Colección de Aves de Colombia del Instituto Humboldt, IAvH-A) positioned IAvH-CT among the most relevant tissue collections of birds in the world (Stoeckle and Winker, 2009), and have allowed to conduct barcoding projects (Gonzalez and Paz, 2013) and have contributed in understanding different evolutionary aspects of the Neotropical species (e.g., Cadena et al, 2007;Puebla-Olivares et al, 2008;Mauck III and Burns, 2009;Parra et al, 2009;Parra, 2010;Sedano and Burns, 2010;Chaves et al, 2011;d'Horta et al, 2012;Gutíerrez-Pinto et al, 2012;Rheindt et al, 2013;Valderrama et al, 2014).…”