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NCSM Birds Collection

Specimen Records: 20,921
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2016-08-31

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Birds Unit collection contains approximately 21,000 specimens and is one of the largest regional birds collections in the southeast.

Contacts

Name Ben Norton
RoleCollections Data Curator
Emailben.norton@naturalsciences.org
Name Brian O'Shea
RoleCollections Manager of Ornithology
Emailbrian.oshea@naturalsciences.org
  • 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_taxonrank_replaced  i20921
100
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i20228
96.688
dwc_continent_added  i19955
95.383
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i19722
94.269
dwc_family_added  i19722
94.269
dwc_order_added  i19722
94.269
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i19722
94.269
dwc_taxonid_added  i19722
94.269
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i19722
94.269
gbif_canonicalname_added  i19722
94.269
gbif_genericname_added  i19722
94.269
gbif_taxon_corrected  i19722
94.269
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i19464
93.036
gbif_vernacularname_added  i19177
91.664
gbif_reference_added  i19037
90.995
dwc_multimedia_added  i19025
90.937
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i10300
49.233
taxon_match_failed  i2026
9.684
dwc_genus_replaced  i1532
7.323
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1166
5.573
geopoint_datum_missing  i467
2.232
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i119
0.569
dwc_country_replaced  i109
0.521
rev_geocode_eez  i104
0.497
geopoint_low_precision  i77
0.368
rev_geocode_mismatch  i20
0.096
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i17
0.081
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i13
0.062
rev_geocode_failure  i10
0.048
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i9
0.043
rev_geocode_corrected  i9
0.043
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6
0.029
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i6
0.029
dwc_class_replaced  i2
0.01
dwc_phylum_replaced  i2
0.01
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0.01
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.005
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.005
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