OCCURRENCE

NMU Bird Collection (Arctos)

Latest version published by Northern Michigan University on 6 August 2023 Northern Michigan University
The bird collection of the Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology is a small (few hundred specimens) collection of skins representing avian diversity of the Great Lakes Region.
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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 329 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)
    329
  • Multimedia 
    0

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Data as a DwC-A file download 329 records in English (79 kB) - Update frequency: monthly
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Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 kB)

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bird Collection, Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Northern Michigan University. 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: f62c330c-e9ab-4a4b-8887-67b0e2888a28.  Northern Michigan University 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:

Kurt Galbreath
Faculty Curator of Mammals
Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology
Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2119 New Science Facility
49855 Marquette
MI
US
(906) 227-1586
https://www.nmu.edu/biology/kurt-galbreath

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Kurt Galbreath
Faculty Curator
Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology
Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2119 New Science Facility
49855 Marquette
MI
US
(906) 227-1586
https://www.nmu.edu/biology/kurt-galbreath

Who filled in the metadata:

Kurt Galbreath
Associate Professor/Curator
Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology
Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2119 New Science Facility
49855 Marquette
MI
US
(906) 227-1586
https://www.nmu.edu/biology/kurt-galbreath

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Point Of Contact
Dusty McDonald
Content Provider
Alec Lindsay
Faculty Curator of Birds
Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology
Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2113 New Science Facility
49855 Marquette
MI
US
(906) 227-1834
https://www.nmu.edu/biology/alindsay

Geographic Coverage

The NMU Museum of Zoology bird collection contains specimens predominantly from Michigan, with scattered specimens from other U.S. states and Canadian provinces.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

The NMU Museum of Zoology bird collection contains representatives of many orders of birds, with the largest holdings (ca. 70%) from Passeriformes.

Class  Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1900-present

Additional Metadata

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

Alternative Identifiers f62c330c-e9ab-4a4b-8887-67b0e2888a28
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=nmu_bird