52da118d-e74e-420a-9b6b-1a6d7bc3028d https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=umnh_birds Eric Rickart Natural History Museum of Utah Curator of Vertebrate Zoology

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+1 (801) 585-7759 rickart@umnh.utah.edu https://nhmu.utah.edu Eric Rickart Natural History Museum of Utah Curator of Vertebrate Zoology

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+1 (801) 585-7759 rickart@umnh.utah.edu https://nhmu.utah.edu Katrina Derieg Natural History Museum of Utah Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager

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+1 (801) 585-7759 kderieg@nhmu.utah.edu https://nhmu.utah.edu Shannen Robson Utah Museum of Natural History Collections Manager

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+1 (801) 585-7759 srobson@nhmu.utah.edu https://nhmu.utah.edu pointOfContact David Bloom VertNet Coordinator dbloom@vertnet.org http://www.vertnet.org programmer Dusty McDonald University of Alaska Museum Arctos Database Programmer dlmcdonald@alaska.edu http://arctos.database.museum pointOfContact 2026-05-02 eng The ornithology collection includes nearly 20,000 specimen records, and is one of the largest in the Intermountain West. Records from the egg collection date back to the 1870s provide some of the earliest information on breeding habits of birds from the Intermountain region. Research of adjunct curators Jack Broughton (Anthropology) and Dale Clayton (Biology) have added several hundered specimens, including a growing collection of bird skeletons. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml 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. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 https://nhmu.utah.edu/vertebrate-zoology https://ipt.vertnet.org/archive.do?r=umnh_birds The collection's prinicipal growth was achieved through the work of William Behle and his students on the birds of Utah and surrounding states. There also are substantial specimen holdings from the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the South Pacific region. -180 180 90 -90 Nearly 600 species belonging to 75 families in 21 orders are represented. class Aves unkown Eric Rickart Natural History Museum of Utah Curator of Vertebrate Zoology

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