Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) Bird specimens (Arctos) for GGBN

Occurrence
Latest version published by Museum of Southwestern Biology on Jul 1, 2021 Museum of Southwestern Biology
Publication date:
1 July 2021
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The MSB Division of Birds maintains an extensive research collection of over 50,000 bird specimens from western North America and around the world. Taxonomic coverage consists of all avian orders and approximately 85% of avian families. The oldest specimens are from the mid-1870’s, with most collected after the 1950’s. The collection has grown ~7-fold since 1989, and it continues to grow rapidly through salvage and research-driven collecting. The geographical strength of the collection is the American Southwest (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico). Worldwide, the collection has important holdings from Kenya, South Africa, the Solomon Islands, and Peru. Approximately 40% of the specimens have frozen tissues associated with them. All but the most recent research specimens are published online via the database Arctos. Collection highlights include: •Extensive collections from the American Southwest •Modern Andean research collections sampled from elevational transects •Synoptic series of the Birds of New Mexico for ID reference and teaching •100% of bird orders and 85% of the bird families of the world represented •The personal collection of Dale Zimmerman, donated in 2004, contributes significantly to the taxonomic and geographic scope of the collection •Collection of Amadeo Rea, upon which the book Once a River was based •Representative threatened, endangered and extinct species of North America •Raptors and game birds of J.M. Campbell •J. Stokley Ligon collections (in part)

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 67,022 records.

5 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.

Occurrence (core)
67022
Permit 
67149
MaterialSample 
67022
Preparation 
67022
ResourceRelationship 
67022
Amplification 
11567

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Division of Birds, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, 87131

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum of Southwestern Biology. 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

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen

Contacts

Andrew Johnson
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collection Manager
Mariel Campbell
  • Metadata Provider
Christopher Witt
  • AssociatedParty
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Ornithology
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
VertNet
8401 Bariloche
Río Negro
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Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
  • Arctos Database Programmer

Geographic Coverage

Global

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Collection Data

Collection Name Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) Bird specimens
Collection Identifier MSB:Bird
Parent Collection Identifier MSB

Additional Metadata