Natural history collections are important as they provide significant information about biogeography and conservation. Occurrence data from such collections aid our understanding of species distribution, provide valuable information about historical geographic ranges and shed light on habitat loss. Here, we report such occurrence data collected from the avian collections of the Emeritus Professor Kazi Zaker Husain Museum of the Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka which holds Bangladesh's largest natural history collection. We restored the specimens with mild damage. As no register of collections was found, we examined bird skins to identify species and associated field slips attached to the tarsus for any available information. We extracted the date and the place of collection, the name of the collectors and identifiers where available. The data were digitized and details of all locations were geo-referenced.