OCCURRENCE

University of Montana Zoological Museum (UMZM) Bird Specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum on 21 February 2023 Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum
The Bird collection at the UMZM consists of over 6000 specimens, including more than 5100 bird skins and 600 bird skeletons, as well as frozen tissues, spread wings, eggs and nests. The majority of specimens were collected from 1900 to the present and emphasize avian biodiversity of the Northern Rocky Mountains.
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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 6,290 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)
    6290
  • Multimedia 
    2

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 6,290 records in English (3 MB) - Update frequency: monthly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (8 kB)
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:

University of Montana Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum Bird Specimens

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c1acc137-7010-489b-a7bb-3025dd4e1628.  Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum 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:

Angela Hornsby
Curator
University of Montana Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum
DBS Health Sciences 104, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive
59812 Missoula
Montana
US
1-406-243-4743
https://www.umt.edu/zoological-museum/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Angela Hornsby
Curator
University of Montana Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum
DBS Health Sciences 104, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive
59812 Missoula
Montana
US
1-406-243-4743
https://www.umt.edu/zoological-museum/

Who filled in the metadata:

Angela Hornsby
Curator
University of Montana Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum
DBS Health Sciences 104, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive
59812 Missoula
Montana
US
1-406-243-4743
https://www.umt.edu/zoological-museum/

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

Primarily Montana and the US northern Rocky Mountain region

Bounding Coordinates South West [41, -121], North East [54, -103]

Taxonomic Coverage

Birds primarily from Montana and the US northern Rocky Mountain region

Class  Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1900 - present, with a few older specimens

Collection Data

Collection Name University of Montana Zoological Museum (UMZM) Bird specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/UMZM:Bird
Parent Collection Identifier UMZM

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Purpose The Bird collection is used primarily for research, but also for teaching and outreach as relevant.
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=umzm_bird