Description
The bird collection of the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (DMNH, formerly known as Delaware Museum of Natural History) consists of approximately 67,000 study skins, 3,000 spread wings and 11,000 skeletons. The holdings represent about 4,000 bird species. About 140 taxa are in the type collection. The collection, worldwide in scope, has especially strong holdings of Philippine and Central and South American birds. Extinct species are also represented. Formation of the collection began when the Museum was founded in 1957. Among the collections that can be found here are those of George Miksch Sutton, Allan R. Phillips, Olin S. Pettingill, D.S. Rabor, M. Hachisuka and specimens from Charles Sibley's expeditions in 1975-1977 .
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 76,380 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
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How to cite
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Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH)
Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c21cd435-718a-4069-b503-776bf0e22b96. Delaware Museum of Nature & Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The bird collection is worldwide in scope with strengths in USA, Mexico, and Philippines.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Class Aves (Birds)
| Class | Aves |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (DMNH, formerly known as Delaware Museum of Natural History) Bird Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | http://grbio.org/cool/ywsm-eq6q |
| Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | c21cd435-718a-4069-b503-776bf0e22b96 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=dmnh_birds |