UAM Bird Collection (Arctos)

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Description

The UAM Bird Collection emphasizes the birds of northwesternmost North America, including taxa endemic to Beringia and the circumpolar North, and is the best in existence for avian material from Alaska. The collection consists of over 30,000 birds. Almost all bird species and subspecies known to occur in Alaska are represented and are preserved primarily as skins, skeletons, and tissues. Most recent preparations include skin, partial skeleton, tissue, and stomach samples for each individual. Tissues are part of the UAM Genomic Resources Collection. Specimens are regularly loaned for scientific research. Specimen loan policies and a summary database are available for interested researchers. Arctos has a "storefront" subset of data in the UAM Bird Collection, and we are in the process of porting over the rest.

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 0 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:

University of Alaska Museum Bird Collection (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4852540d-afd1-4678-bd20-4aac28f65e2d. University of Alaska Museum of the North publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Kevin Winker

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Curator of Birds

University of Alaska Museum

907 Yukon Drive

99775-6960 Fairbanks

kevin.winker@alaska.edu

http://www.kevinwinker.org/

David Bloom

Programmer

VertNet Coordinator

dbloom@vertnet.org

Dusty McDonald

Point Of Contact

Arctos Database Programmer

University of Alaska Museum

dlmcdonald@alaska.edu

http://arctos.database.museum

Jack Withrow

Point Of Contact

Collection Manager, Birds

University of Alaska Museum

907 Yukon Drive

99775-6960 Fairbanks

jjwithrow@alaska.edu

Geographic Coverage

The UAM bird collection is global, with strongest representation coming from Alaska and places where migratory Alaska birds winter.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

The UAM bird collection is taxonomically synoptic and includes most recent orders of birds, with approximately 140 families, 800 genera, and nearly 2,000 species. The collection holds specimen material for over 90% of the 619 species and subspecies of birds known to occur in Alaska.

Class	Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period	1880 to present

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers	4852540d-afd1-4678-bd20-4aac28f65e2d
	https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uam_bird