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UAM Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 32,717
Media Records: 298
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The UAM Bird Collection emphasizes the birds of northwesternmost North America, including taxa endemic to Beringia and the circumpolar North, and is the best in existence for avian material from Alaska. The collection consists of over 30,000 birds. Almost all bird species and subspecies known to occur in Alaska are represented and are preserved primarily as skins, skeletons, and tissues. Most recent preparations include skin, partial skeleton, tissue, and stomach samples for each individual. Tissues are part of the UAM Genomic Resources Collection. Specimens are regularly loaned for scientific research. Specimen loan policies and a summary database are available for interested researchers. Arctos has a "storefront" subset of data in the UAM Bird Collection, and we are in the process of porting over the rest.

Contacts

Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Jack Withrow
RoleCollection Manager, Birds
Emailjjwithrow@alaska.edu
Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i31533
96.381
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i31533
96.381
dwc_taxonid_added  i31533
96.381
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i31533
96.381
gbif_canonicalname_added  i31533
96.381
gbif_genericname_added  i31533
96.381
gbif_taxon_corrected  i31533
96.381
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i31377
95.904
gbif_vernacularname_added  i31279
95.605
gbif_reference_added  i30835
94.248
dwc_multimedia_added  i30818
94.196
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i28624
87.49
dwc_continent_added  i28564
87.306
geopoint_datum_error  i23048
70.447
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i19339
59.11
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i18677
57.087
geopoint_datum_missing  i7637
23.343
rev_geocode_eez  i6386
19.519
taxon_match_failed  i3767
11.514
dwc_continent_replaced  i3695
11.294
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3253
9.943
dwc_family_replaced  i2535
7.748
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1573
4.808
dwc_genus_replaced  i1562
4.774
dwc_order_replaced  i462
1.412
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i331
1.012
rev_geocode_mismatch  i250
0.764
dwc_family_added  i30
0.092
dwc_order_added  i30
0.092
dwc_class_replaced  i29
0.089
dwc_genus_added  i29
0.089
dwc_phylum_replaced  i29
0.089
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i19
0.058
rev_geocode_failure  i17
0.052
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i5
0.015
dwc_class_added  i4
0.012
rev_geocode_corrected  i3
0.009
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i3
0.009
geopoint_0_coord  i2
0.006
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0.003
dwc_kingdom_added  i1
0.003
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.003
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