Abilene Christian University Bird specimens (Arctos)

Occurrence
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Description

The ACUNHC Bird Collection is comprised of 153 specimens. Roughly a third of the collection was a donation and is known as the “Jack Minter Bird Collection.” The remaining specimens in the collection are from Taylor County, Texas.

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 158 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)
158
Multimedia 
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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Abilene Christian University Ornithology Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited as https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ACUNHC:Bird; followed by the integer catalog number.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 95a4cd56-8290-4ebb-b799-b272308ac4ef.  Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Local Taylor County Texas birds and game birds of North America.

Contacts

Thomas Lee
  • Point Of Contact
Thomas Lee
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor
Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection
  • Department of Biology, ACU Box 27868, Abilene Christian University
79699 Abilene
TX
US
  • 13253704442
Madeline Walicek
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect

Geographic Coverage

North America

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

Taxonomic Coverage

Birds of North America

Class Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1970-present

Collection Data

Collection Name Abilene Christian University Bird specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ACUNHC:Bird
Parent Collection Identifier ACUNHC

Additional Metadata

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

Alternative Identifiers 95a4cd56-8290-4ebb-b799-b272308ac4ef
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=acunhc_bird