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DMNS Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 57,127
Media Records: 94
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

he Denver Museum of Nature & Science bird collection contains approximately 53,000 specimens from around the world (1842 to the present), with a focus on the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. The collection is worldwide in scope (six out of seven continents represented) with excellent taxonomic coverage of class Aves (205 out of ~224 families represented). Ordinal representation is excellent; however, more than half of the birds in the collection belong to Passeriformes. The collection includes study skins, skeletal material (~5,000, most with associated skin), taxidermy mounts, frozen tissue samples (~12,000), and associated parasites (ecto- and endoparasites). Growth of the collection continues primarily through salvage activities. The 7,000 egg sets/nests are curated separately - this collection is also global in scope with a focus on North America and Europe.

Contacts

Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.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 Jeffrey Stephenson
RoleCollections Manager, Department of Zoology
Emailjeff.stephenson@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleAssistant Collections Manager, Department of Zoology
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
  • Data Corrected
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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
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97.481
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97.467
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97.367
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97.367
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97.367
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i55623
97.367
gbif_canonicalname_added  i55623
97.367
gbif_genericname_added  i55623
97.367
gbif_taxon_corrected  i55623
97.367
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i55213
96.65
gbif_vernacularname_added  i54856
96.025
dwc_multimedia_added  i54330
95.104
gbif_reference_added  i54235
94.938
geopoint_datum_error  i43658
76.423
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i32482
56.859
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i28041
49.085
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19.635
taxon_match_failed  i6306
11.039
dwc_family_replaced  i6255
10.949
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i6143
10.753
rev_geocode_eez  i1888
3.305
dwc_continent_replaced  i1308
2.29
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1245
2.179
dwc_order_replaced  i955
1.672
dwc_genus_replaced  i827
1.448
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0.949
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0.116
dwc_genus_added  i53
0.093
dwc_class_replaced  i52
0.091
dwc_family_added  i52
0.091
dwc_order_added  i52
0.091
dwc_phylum_replaced  i52
0.091
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i30
0.053
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i28
0.049
dwc_country_replaced  i19
0.033
geopoint_0_coord  i4
0.007
rev_geocode_corrected  i2
0.004
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_failure  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.002
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