SDNHM Birds Collection
The San Diego Natural History Museum Birds Collection has grown into a major resource on bird species of western North America, including Baja California. Its taxonomic coverage includes 90% of the world's bird families, a coverage extended by the museum's status as a repository for specimens from the San Diego Zoo. The department produced the San Diego County Bird Atlas (http://www.sdnhm.org/science/birds-and-mammals/projects/san-diego-county-bird-atlas/), published in 2004 and based on field work from March 1997 through February 2002.
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 49,262 records.
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San Diego Natural History Museum Birds Collection (SDNHM)
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 84b26828-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. San Diego Natural History Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
California, Oregon, Arizona, and Baja California are the states best covered.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Skins of almost all species of North America, including Baja California. The full range of variation (geographic, seasonal, sexual, developmental) of many southwestern species is represented. Passerines with complex geographic variation are covered in greatest depth. The skeleton collection is taxonomically broad, covering over 90% of all bird families. For groups not occurring in western North America, it is based heavily on specimens received through the San Diego Zoo. The waterfowl, parrots, pigeons, starlings, and babblers are among the large families especially well covered. There are 48 primary type specimens (holotypes and syntypes).
| Class | Aves (birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1869-06-06 / 2015-03-17 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Collection of birds, San Diego Natural History Museum |
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| Collection Identifier | http://www.sdnhm.org/science/birds-and-mammals/ |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 84b26828-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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