Description
The ornithology collection includes nearly 20,000 specimen records, and is one of the largest in the Intermountain West. Records from the egg collection date back to the 1870s provide some of the earliest information on breeding habits of birds from the Intermountain region. Research of adjunct curators Jack Broughton (Anthropology) and Dale Clayton (Biology) have added several hundered specimens, including a growing collection of bird skeletons.
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 20,893 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:
Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) Birds Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH). 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: 52da118d-e74e-420a-9b6b-1a6d7bc3028d. Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) 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
- Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
- 301 Wakara Way
- +1 (801) 585-7759
- Metadata Provider
- Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
- 301 Wakara Way
- +1 (801) 585-7759
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 301 Wakara Way
- +1 (801) 585-7759
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
Geographic Coverage
The collection's prinicipal growth was achieved through the work of William Behle and his students on the birds of Utah and surrounding states. There also are substantial specimen holdings from the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the South Pacific region.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Nearly 600 species belonging to 75 families in 21 orders are represented.
| Class | Aves |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 52da118d-e74e-420a-9b6b-1a6d7bc3028d |
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