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MVZ Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 196,325
Media Records: 4,665
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The MVZ bird collection is one of the largest in the United States. It houses over 185,000 catalogued specimens, including 174 holotype and 2 syntypes. The majority of specimens are study skins, but the collection also contains over 21,000 skeletal specimens and 3,200 fluid-preserved specimens. Other types of preparations include flat specimens (wings, skins) and body skins with skeletons ("schmoos"). Tissues, anatomical parts (e.g., syrinx, stomach contents), and parasites are routinely preserved with specimens. Many specimens also are associated with cataloged audio recordings.

Contacts

Name Carla Cicero
RoleStaff Curator of Birds
Emailccicero@berkeley.edu
Name Carla Cicero
RoleStaff Curator of Birds
Emailccicero@berkeley.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Rauri Bowie
RoleFaculty Curator of Birds
Emailbowie@berkeley.edu
Name Carla Cicero
RoleStaff Curator of Birds
Emailccicero@berkeley.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i193909
98.769
dwc_continent_added  i193327
98.473
geopoint_datum_error  i188225
95.874
dwc_datasetid_added  i59317
30.214
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i59317
30.214
dwc_taxonid_added  i59317
30.214
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i59317
30.214
dwc_taxonrank_added  i59317
30.214
gbif_canonicalname_added  i59317
30.214
gbif_genericname_added  i59317
30.214
gbif_taxon_corrected  i59317
30.214
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i59296
30.203
dwc_multimedia_added  i55981
28.514
gbif_vernacularname_added  i53602
27.303
gbif_reference_added  i26330
13.411
geopoint_low_precision  i22334
11.376
rev_geocode_eez  i13445
6.848
dwc_specificepithet_added  i8049
4.1
taxon_match_failed  i5387
2.744
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i3992
2.033
dwc_family_replaced  i3362
1.712
dwc_continent_replaced  i1685
0.858
dwc_order_replaced  i1030
0.525
rev_geocode_mismatch  i491
0.25
dwc_class_replaced  i305
0.155
dwc_phylum_replaced  i305
0.155
dwc_family_added  i296
0.151
dwc_genus_added  i296
0.151
dwc_order_added  i296
0.151
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i195
0.099
dwc_genus_replaced  i145
0.074
dwc_country_replaced  i124
0.063
geopoint_0_coord  i44
0.022
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i32
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i14
0.007
rev_geocode_corrected  i13
0.007
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i12
0.006
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i11
0.006
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i9
0.005
dwc_class_added  i2
0.001
dwc_kingdom_added  i2
0.001
dwc_phylum_added  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.001
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