Description
The Department of Ornithology maintains one of the largest collections of bird specimens in the world. The research collections of the Department number nearly one million specimens; these include skins, skeletons, alcoholic preparations, eggs, nests, and tissue samples for molecular biochemical studies. A large number of type specimens and rare or extinct species are also found in its collections.
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 833,709 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
AMNH Bird Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is American Museum of Natural History. The terms and conditions of use of AMNH data are given in the document found at http://research.amnh.org/vertzoo/TandC.pdf.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 96c93a1e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. American Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
The specimens represent all continents and oceans.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The specimens represent nearly 99 percent of all species.
| Class | Aves (birds) |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 96c93a1e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource.do?r=amnh_birds |