Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen

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Description

This dataset contains a list of all the bird skeletons, partial skeletons, and skulls in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen in Bergen, Norway, and associated information such as provenance data and measurements (if available). The material has been collected between the late 19th century and now. The main geographical focus of the collection is Norway and Scandinavia, but the collection also contains specimens from other countries.

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 0 records.

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:

Meijer H J (2024). Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen. Version 1.10. University of Bergen. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=osteologi_birds&v=1.10

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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4f059695-36d9-4313-a27e-38e58ed0660c. University of Bergen publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Occurrence; birds; Aves; osteology; skeleton; skull; Specimen

Contacts

Hanneke J.M. Meijer

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
User ●
Point Of Contact

Associate Professor & Curator

University Museum of Bergen, Department of Natural History

Allegaten 41

5007 Bergen

Hanneke.Meijer@uib.no

+47 55 58 29 18

https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Hanneke.J.M..Meijer

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-6869

Vidar Bakken

Publisher

Data manager

GBIF Norway

Natural History Museum, Sars' gate 1

0562 Oslo

Norge

vidar.bakken@usit.uio.no

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-2059

Geographic Coverage

The main focus of this collection is Norway and Scandinavia, but it contains specimens of other areas as well.

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

All bird skeletons, partial skeletons and skulls were identified to species level.

Class	Aves (Birds)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1850-01-01 / 2023-01-01

Collection Data

Collection Name	Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen
Collection Identifier	https://registry.gbif.org/collection/0932d5d7-523c-450d-8013-12961a009b3b

Specimen preservation methods	Dried

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	4f059695-36d9-4313-a27e-38e58ed0660c
	https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=osteologi_birds