Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Egg Collection

Sharon Grant1, Ben Marks2, Shannon Hackett2

1 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, 60605, Chicago, United States; 2 Field Museum of Natural History, 1400, 

Corresponding author(s): Sharon Grant (sgrant@fieldmuseum.org), Ben Marks (bmarks@fieldmuseum.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

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

Data published through GBIF: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fm_birds_eggs

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Egg Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/archive.do?r=fm_birds_eggs
Publication date of data: 2019-07-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-03-05
Hierarchy level: Dataset