Description
The Chicago Academy of Sciences ornithology collection includes over 13,000 specimens, with approximately 12,000 skins and 1,000 mounted specimens. An important addition in 1965 was the donation of 3,600 specimens from S. S. Gregory, which includes the extinct Ivory-billed Woodpeckers and Carolina Parakeets. In all, 583 species of North American birds are represented. Thirty percent of the birds were collected before 1900, including important Illinois specimens from Robert Kennicott and Benjamin T. Gault. There is also a valuable collection of nearly 1,000 Alaskan skins. Other notable collectors include Alfred M. Bailey, P. Brodkorb, Charles D. Brower, Henry K. Coale, Francis S. Dayton, Ruthven Deane, Stephen Strong Gregory, Charles D. Klotz, Roy V. Komarek, Edwin V. Komarek, C. C. Sanborn, and Earl G. Wright.
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 16,008 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.
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
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How to cite
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Chicago Academy of Sciences Ornithology Collection (CHAS) - Ornithology
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GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
United States, primarily the Midwest region, and also expeditions to Alaska, Arizona, the Great Smoky Mountains, Louisiana, Florida, and South Dakota.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The ornithology collection represents 580 species. Most are species that occur in the Midwest, though many of these species are migrants that are also native to South America and Canada.
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1834-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 16965647-4120-4e0b-aa57-1eeaf028606e |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=chas_birds |