Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Bird specimens (Arctos)

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 1,736 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History (UCSC), University of California, Santa Cruz Bird Collection (Arctos)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kenneth S. Norris Center for 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: 44165940-fa60-466f-935e-d76180e6ef8e.  Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Generally focused on North America, especially the Central Coast of California. Occasional representatives outside of North America are also present. A series from Midway Atoll is notable.

Taxonomic Coverage

The bird collections cover all the major families native to North America, with occasional taxa from other areas.

Temporal Coverage

Additional Metadata