HSU Vertebrate Museum Birds Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Humboldt State University on Jan 5, 2017 Humboldt State University

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Description

The Bird Collection at the HSU Vertebrate Museum contains 545 specimens, used primarily in teaching. The major collection of birds at HSU is housed in the Department of Wildlife. The Wildlife Museum contains an outstanding collection of over 8,000 bird skins, mounts, and skeletal material, with an additional 3,400 bird egg sets and nests.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

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Humboldt State University Vertebrate Museum Birds Collection

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Humboldt State University. 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: 1937bcf8-1006-4dfd-baf8-a16de64b321e.  Humboldt State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

John Reiss
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Curator
Humboldt State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Museum
  • 1 Harpst Street
95521 Arcata
CA
US
  • 707-826-4156
Thor Holmes
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager
Humboldt State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Museum
  • 1 Harpst Street
95521 Arcata
CA
US
  • 707-826-4872
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

This collection is especially strong in specimens from the Pacific Northwest.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Aves

Additional Metadata

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