Description
The bird egg collection at the Natural History Museum, Agder University, holds 1190 journal numbers of single eggs or clutches, but also a substantial number of eggs not yet digitally registered. The majority of bird eggs is a 20+ years series of Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) eggs from SE Norway (687 entries with more than 1100 eggs). Each entry specifies conditions for collecting (single egg from clutch, whole clutch, failed, abandoned or unhatched eggs), date and locality, total clutch size and number of chicks, collector and determinator. Weight, length and with measurements are also given for a majority of the eggs.
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 1,237 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Agder. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ac3608fe-71ff-43b4-84da-8b284d5b7b47. University of Agder publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Bird eggs; unhatched eggs; weight; measurements.; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8790-9318
Geographic Coverage
Bird eggs primarily from Norway, but some samples from Sweden, Greenland and UK.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [54.368, -57.305], North East [81.672, 34.102] |
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Sampling Methods
Eggs collected until 1995 usually as whole clutches. Eggs collected after 1995 only as unhatched or abandoned eggs. Main focus on seabirds (Svalbard) and kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
| Study Extent | Unhatched eggs collected during nestbox studies of owls and falcons. Seabird eggs collected during monitoring projects on Svalbard (2000, 2003, 2006). |
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Method step description:
- Eggs are weighed, measured (length, width) and content removed through one blowhole. Content usually described for each egg (since 2000).
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | ac3608fe-71ff-43b4-84da-8b284d5b7b47 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=anm_egg |