Mayborn Museum Birds Collection at Baylor University

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Description

The Bird Collection at the Mayborn Museum Complex contains specimens collected over the last 145 years. Over 60% of the specimens were collected in Texas. Notable specimens in the museum’s holdings include a Bay Breasted Warbler collected in Indiana in 1871, a Common Puffin collected in 1959 at the North Pole, and two Golden Eagles collected in Denton County, Texas in 1906.

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 2,244 records.

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How to cite

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Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex (BUMMC) Bird Collection

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex. 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: 4c97f57e-69d6-40f8-a310-2a716a02f911. Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.