OCCURRENCE

University of Nebraska State Museum Birds Collection

Latest version published by University of Nebraska State Museum on 24 February 2021 University of Nebraska State Museum
The collection of birds consists of over 13,000 specimens inclusive of early oological collections (1,400 egg sets) and more recent skeletal material (4,000 specimens). Early UNSM birds contain specimens from the 1870s and into the early 1900s that are primarily from Nebraska, Mexico, and Central America. They include birds collected by M.A. Carriker and J.T. Zimmer while students at Nebraska. Lawrence Bruner, head of the Department of Entomology and Ornithology, collected specimens from Argentina and Mexico primarily for exhibits. Myron Swenk oversaw the collection from 1900 until 1940, and his "Birds and Mammals of Nebraska" (1920) was largely based on specimens in the Museum. "The Birds of Nebraska" (2001) has roots in these collections and continues with the "Birds of Nebraska - Online... More
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Description

The collection of birds consists of over 13,000 specimens inclusive of early oological collections (1,400 egg sets) and more recent skeletal material (4,000 specimens). Early UNSM birds contain specimens from the 1870s and into the early 1900s that are primarily from Nebraska, Mexico, and Central America. They include birds collected by M.A. Carriker and J.T. Zimmer while students at Nebraska. Lawrence Bruner, head of the Department of Entomology and Ornithology, collected specimens from Argentina and Mexico primarily for exhibits. Myron Swenk oversaw the collection from 1900 until 1940, and his "Birds and Mammals of Nebraska" (1920) was largely based on specimens in the Museum. "The Birds of Nebraska" (2001) has roots in these collections and continues with the "Birds of Nebraska - Online". Collections currently grow primarily through salvage.

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 13,074 records.

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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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

University of Nebraska State Museum Bird Collection (UNSM)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Nebraska State Museum. 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: d235af7e-b96a-478f-a0df-29eb758b8192.  University of Nebraska State Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Thomas Labedz
Collection Manager
Division of Zoology, University of Nebraska State Museum
645 N 14th St
68588-0338 Lincoln
NE
US
+01 402-472-8366
https://museum.unl.edu/collections/zoology/index.html

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Thomas Labedz
Collection Manager
Division of Zoology, University of Nebraska State Museum
645 N 14th St
68588-0338 Lincoln
NE
US
+01 402-472-8366
https://museum.unl.edu/collections/zoology/index.html
Robert Zink
Curator
Division of Zoology, University of Nebraska State Museum
645 N 14th St
68588-0338 Lincoln
NE
US
+01 612-590-4215
https://museum.unl.edu/collections/zoology/index.html

Who filled in the metadata:

Thomas Labedz
Collection Manager
Division of Zoology, University of Nebraska State Museum
645 N 14th St
68588-0338 Lincoln
NE
US
+01 402-472-8366
https://museum.unl.edu/collections/zoology/index.html

Who else was associated with the resource:

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

Geographic Coverage

Primarily Nebraska collections (8,215) and the central United States, but also with many specimens from California (685) and other states. Some collections from Central and South America. Minor collections from elsewhere in the world.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-57.327, -175.781], North East [73.227, -28.125]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Aves (Birds)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1854-01-01 / 2021-01-01