University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Bird specimens (Arctos) for GGBN

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on Jul 14, 2021 University of Alaska Museum of the North

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Description

With emphasis on the birds of northwesternmost North America, including taxa endemic to Beringia and the circumpolar North, the Bird Collection is the best in existence of avian material from Alaska. Almost all bird species and subspecies known in Alaska are represented and are preserved primarily as skins, skeletons, and tissues. The collection consists of over 30,000 birds. Most recent preparations include skin, partial skeleton, tissue, and stomach samples for each individual. Tissues are part of the Genomic Resources Collection. Specimens are regularly loaned for scientific research. Specimen loan policies and a summary database are available for interested researchers. Taxonomy: Most recent orders of birds, constituting ~140 families, ~800 genera and nearly 2,000 species. We hold specimen material for over 90% of the 619 species and subspecies of birds known to occur in Alaska. Geography: Global in extent with strongest representation coming from Alaska and places where migratory Alaska birds winter.

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 22,641 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)
22641
Permit 
22740
MaterialSample 
22641
Preparation 
22641
ResourceRelationship 
22641
Amplification 
1106

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

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

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

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. 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

John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Originator
  • Information Architect
VertNet
8401 Bariloche
Río Negro
AR
Kyndall Hildebrandt
  • Metadata Provider
  • Genomic Resources Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
  • (907) 474-6914
Kevin Winker
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Birds
University of Alaska Museum
Jack Withrow
  • Point Of Contact
University of Alaska Museum
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 University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Bird specimens
Collection Identifier UAM:Bird
Parent Collection Identifier UAM

Additional Metadata