Description
Vertebrate Zoology in the CU Museum of Natural History is a biodiversity repository of more than 120,000 specimens from five taxa: Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles (Herpetology), Birds, and Mammals. With the exception of birds, our collections are the largest collections of their kind in Colorado. Since our specimens document changes in biodiversity over the last 200 years, they are treasures of biological and historical significance. The geographic scope of our bird specimens is global, representing 38 countries. As in all of our collections, the emphasis is on Colorado species (over 80% represented) with material dating from the early 1800s to the present. Nearly 6,000 specimens were donated by the Colorado College Museum in Colorado Springs in the 1960s. This material includes the collection of Charles E. Aiken, a pioneer ornithologist in Colorado, and dates back to 1805. The Bird collection is also home to several specimens of iconic extinct species such as Passenger Pigeons and Carolina Parakeets.
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 12,331 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 Colorado Museum of Natural History Birds Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. 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: 89337996-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
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Geographic Coverage
The geographic scope of our bird specimens is global representing 38 countries, including over two hundred from Colombia. But as in all of our collections, the emphasis is on Colorado species (over 80% represented).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
7 type specimens (1 holotype & 6 paratypes). The bird collection is home to several specimens of iconic extinct species such as Passenger Pigeons and Carolina Parakeets.
| Class | Aves (birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1800 to present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 89337996-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=ucm_birds |