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

Hanneke J.M. Meijer1, Vidar Bakken2

1 University Museum of Bergen, Department of Natural History, Allegaten 41, 5007, Bergen, Norway; 2 GBIF Norway, Natural History Museum, Sars' gate 1, 0562, Oslo, Norway

Corresponding author(s): Hanneke J.M. Meijer (Hanneke.Meijer@uib.no)

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Resource Citation

Meijer H J (2023). Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen. Version 1.9. University of Bergen. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=osteologi_birds&v=1.9

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, birds, Aves, osteology, skeleton, skull, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=osteologi_birds

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All bird skeletons, partial skeletons and skulls were identified to species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Aves
Common names: Birds

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The main focus of this collection is Norway and Scandinavia, but it contains specimens of other areas as well.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1850 - 2023

Natural collections description

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 method: Dried

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bird skeletons in the modern Osteological Collections at the University Museum of Bergen
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=osteologi_birds
Publication date of data: 2023-11-09
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-03-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset