Description
The Bird Collection of the University Museum Bergen houses 7100 specimens. The majority are study skins (incl. a few old mounted birds) and about 400 birds preserved in ethanol. The collection has a focus on species from Norway, but also includes (mainly old) specimens from localities in other parts of the world. The collection is currently growing by about 40-50 birds per year. These have typically been accidentally killed by e.g. airplanes, fishing gear, windows, cars, cats etc., and have been delivered to the museum by members of the public or local authorities. A few are also normally collected during field work by museum staff. DISCLAIMER: The dataset is curated and will receive updates, please always make sure to download the latest version. The provided data is likely not entirely free of errors. If using (parts of) the data, please carefully check datapoints. In doubt, please contact the responsible curator for further improvement.
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 7,035 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 Bergen. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5d180e08-dd46-4c61-b811-74bc482a1aa5. University of Bergen publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-7061
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Geographic Coverage
The majority of data are from Norway but including specimens from all continents.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Tinamiidae, Odontophoridae, Phasianidae, Anatidae, Opisthocomidae, Podargidae, Caprimulgidae, Trochilidae, Apodidae, Pteroclidae, Columbidae, Podicipedidae, Burhinidae, Haematopodidae, Recurvirostriae, Charadriidae, Thinocoridae, Jacanidae, Scolopacidae, Turnicidae, Glareolidae, Alcidae, Stercoraridae, Laridae, Cuculidae, Rallidae, Musophagidae, Gaviidae, Spheniscidae, Procellariidae, Ciconiidae, Pelecanidae, Ardeidae, Threskiornithidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Accipitridae, Tytonidae, Strigidae, Coliidae, Trogonidae, Upupidae, Phoeniculidae, Bucconidae, Megalaimidae, Lybiidae, Rhamphastidae, Picidae, Meropidae, Coraciidae, Momotidae, Alcedinidae, Falconidae, Psittacidae, Eurylaimidae, Cotingidae, Tyrannidae, Thamnophilidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Meliphagidae, Vangidae, Platysteiridae, Malaconotidae, Artamidae, Campephagidae, Pachycephalidae, Oriolidae, Vireonidae, Laniidae, Corvidae, Dicruridae, Paradisaeidae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, Turdidae, Paridae, Alaudidae, Phylloscopidae, Aegithalidae, Zosteropidae, Timaliidae, Hirundinidae, Pycnonotidae, Acrocephalidae, Cisticolidae, Regulidae, Bombycillidae, Cinclidae, Sturnidae, Sturnidae, Muscicapidae, Certhiidae, Sittidae, Troglodytidae, Polioptilidae, Nectariniidae, Chloropseidae, Prunellidae, Ploceidae, Estrildidae, Passeridae, Motacillidae, Fringillidae, Parulidae, Icteridae, Emberizidae, Cardinalidae, Thraupidae.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1840-07-08 / 2024-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University Museum of Bergen, the bird collection |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:91dab78d-2217-4257-8a3a-37b7a1952a24 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | urn:uuid:c83101f0-56c9-4c25-bc3f-a22c476cf3b0 |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Dried, Freeze-dried, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Museum collection. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=birds_bergen |