Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Egg Collection

Data as a DwC-A file	download 21,086 records in English (2 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file	download in English (6 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file	download in English (6 KB)

Description

The Field Museum's Bird Division egg and nest collections contains more than 500,000 data-rich specimens, our worldwide collections receive heavy use by US and international visitors and borrowers.

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 21,086 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.

21086

1123

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 Field Museum. 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: 43e0bba3-9edb-4b00-b490-84924e55a222. Field Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.