Description
The Charles R. Conner Museum's bird collection contains over 16,700 birds, including approximately 14,000 study skins, 1,000 skeletons, 1,000 prepared wings, 1,600 fluid-preserved birds, 250 sets of eggs and a few nests. The majority of birds in this collection are from the Western United States, primarily Washington and Idaho. We also have a notable collection of birds from the Mariana Islands.
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 16,782 records.
2 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University. Please include a supplementary table of the specimens used and their CRCM identifier in publications.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Charles R. Conner Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 378c96e5-4652-4e2a-9592-74bd71798f33. Charles R. Conner Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Curator
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Originator
- Curator (retired)
- Point Of Contact
- Interim Director
- Curator
- Curator / Collections Manager
Geographic Coverage
Primarily specimen from the Western United States, but includes specimen from every continent.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Birds
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1880 to present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Washington State University, Charles R. Conner Museum Bird specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/CRCM:Bird |
| Parent Collection Identifier | CRCM |
| Specimen preservation methods |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; https://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Education and research. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 378c96e5-4652-4e2a-9592-74bd71798f33 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=crcm_bird |