Description
The bird collection of the Northern Michigan University Museum of Zoology is a small (few hundred specimens) collection of skins representing avian diversity of the Great Lakes Region.
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 329 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Bird Collection, Northern Michigan University, Northern Museum of Zoology. Individual catalog records should be cited by the catalog record url: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/NMU:Bird:1.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Northern Michigan 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: f62c330c-e9ab-4a4b-8887-67b0e2888a28. Northern Michigan University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Faculty Curator
- Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2119 New Science Facility
- (906) 227-1586
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-0833
- Content Provider
- Faculty Curator
- Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2119 New Science Facility
- Content Provider
- Faculty Curator of Birds
- Biology Department, Northern Michigan University, 2113 New Science Facility
- (906) 227-1834
Geographic Coverage
The Northern Museum of Zoology bird collection contains specimens predominantly from Michigan, with some specimens from other U.S. states and Canadian provinces.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [7, -180], North East [70, -70] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The NMU Museum of Zoology bird collection contains representatives of many orders of birds, with the largest holdings (ca. 70%) from Passeriformes.
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1900-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Northern Michigan University (NMU) Bird specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/NMU:Bird |
| Parent Collection Identifier | NMU |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
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| Purpose | The NMU bird collection is primarily used for teaching in organismal courses. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | f62c330c-e9ab-4a4b-8887-67b0e2888a28 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=nmu_bird |