OCCURRENCE

DMNS Egg Collection (Arctos)

Latest version published by Denver Museum of Nature & Science on 28 September 2023 Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Egg/Nest Collection houses approximately 7,000 catalogued specimens focused primarily on the United States. The bulk of the collection was acquired as a donation of the William C. Bradbury private collection and covers the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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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 7,148 records.

1 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)
    7148
  • Multimedia 
    18

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.

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Data as a DwC-A file download 7,148 records in English (3 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (8 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 kB)

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science Egg/Nest Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Denver Museum of Nature & Science. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c50340a3-54f9-46fa-aecb-6197bcfa1b54.  Denver Museum of Nature & Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Garth Spellman
Curator of Ornithology
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
80205-5798 Denver
CO
US
+01 303-370-6469
https://www.dmns.org/science/zoology/staff/garth-spellman/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Garth Spellman
Curator of Ornithology
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
80205-5798 Denver
CO
US
+01 303-370-6469
https://www.dmns.org/science/zoology/staff/garth-spellman/
Andrew Doll
Zoology Collections Manager
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
80205-5798 Denver
CO
US
303-370-8387
https://www.dmns.org/science/zoology/staff/andrew-doll/

Who filled in the metadata:

Garth Spellman
Curator of Ornithology
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
80205-5798 Denver
CO
US
+01 303-370-6469
https://www.dmns.org/science/zoology/staff/garth-spellman/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Point Of Contact
Dusty McDonald
Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
http://arctos.database.museum

Geographic Coverage

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Egg/Nest Collection is global, with the largest holdings from the United States.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1850-present

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Purpose Natural History Research and Education
Alternative Identifiers c50340a3-54f9-46fa-aecb-6197bcfa1b54
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=dmns_egg