OCCURRENCE

California State University, Long Beach Bird specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by California State University, Long Beach on 28 September 2023 California State University, Long Beach
The bird collection has ~4,500 specimens preserved as study skins. Most specimens are Southern California birds, with a variety of non-local taxa represented by specimens from other United States regions, northwestern Mexico, zoos, and a few localities in continents and islands worldwide.
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28 September 2023
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Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 4,506 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    4506
  • ResourceRelationship 
    4463
  • Multimedia 
    0

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 4,506 records in English (1 MB) - Update frequency: monthly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

California State University Long Beach Bird Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California State University, Long Beach. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8f93bab2-36b8-4a87-8a0c-2614e762fe90.  California State University, Long Beach publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Suellen Jacob
Vertebrate Collections Manager
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/birds/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Ted Stankowich
Mammalogy Professer
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/birds/

Who filled in the metadata:

Suellen Jacob
Vertebrate Collections Manager
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/birds/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://www.vertnet.org

Geographic Coverage

Mostly southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1832-present

Collection Data

Collection Name California State University, Long Beach Bird specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/CSULB:Bird
Parent Collection Identifier CSULB
Specimen preservation methods Mounted,  Dried

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/

Purpose Teaching, Research.
Alternative Identifiers 8f93bab2-36b8-4a87-8a0c-2614e762fe90
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=csulb_bird