OCCURRENCE

Mayborn Museum Birds Collection at Baylor University

Latest version published by Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex on 18 March 2019 Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex
The Bird Collection at the Mayborn Museum Complex contains specimens collected over the last 145 years. Over 60% of the specimens were collected in Texas. Notable specimens in the museum’s holdings include a Bay Breasted Warbler collected in Indiana in 1871, a Common Puffin collected in 1959 at the North Pole, and two Golden Eagles collected in Denton County, Texas in 1906.
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Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex (BUMMC) Bird Collection

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4c97f57e-69d6-40f8-a310-2a716a02f911.  Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Clare Cunningham
Collections Assistant
Mayborn Museum
US
https://www.baylor.edu/mayborn/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Clare Cunningham
Collections Assistant
Mayborn Museum
US
https://www.baylor.edu/mayborn/

Who filled in the metadata:

Clare Cunningham
Collections Assistant
Mayborn Museum
US
https://www.baylor.edu/mayborn/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
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Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
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Anita Benedict
Collections Manager
Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex
https://www.baylor.edu/mayborn/
Sabrina Thomas
Assistant Collections Manager
Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex
https://www.baylor.edu/mayborn/

Geographic Coverage

Global coverage, with emphasis on Texas, United States.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Aves

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers 4c97f57e-69d6-40f8-a310-2a716a02f911
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=bummc_birds