Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Egg Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Field Museum on Sep 27, 2024 Field Museum

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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 21,152 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.

Occurrence (core)
21152
Multimedia 
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

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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 GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Sharon Grant
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
60605 Chicago
IL
US
Kate Webbink
  • Originator
Information Specialist
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
60605 Chicago
IL
US
Ben Marks
  • Metadata Provider
Collection Manager
Field Museum of Natural History
1400
Shannon Hackett
  • User
Associate Curator of Zoology, Birds
Field Museum of Natural History
1400

Geographic Coverage

Global

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

Additional Metadata

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

Alternative Identifiers 43e0bba3-9edb-4b00-b490-84924e55a222
https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fm_birds_eggs