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University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 2,665
Media Records: 21
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The UWYMV Bird Collection is housed in the Robert and Carol Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center on the campus of the University of Wyoming. It is a part of the Department of Zoology and Physiology. The collection was started in 1894 and Wilbur C. Knight, the state geologist, was appointed as the first curator. The museum's mission was to document and describe Wyoming's avian biodiversity. There was a brief period of active collecting by Knight and Charles W. Gilmore in 1897 and 1898. This was followed by a period of inactivity until the arrival of Ernest Pilsbury Walker as an undergraduate. He collected specimens around the southeastern part of the state from 1910 through 1912. He also contributed his personal collection from Sheridan, Indiana. Beyond sporadic trading and salvaging, the collection has been mostly inactive for the past 100 years until Matt Carling was hired as curator and James Maley was hired as collections manager. The collection was moved into the Berry Center and organized, and it is now undergoing rapid expansion.

Contacts

Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.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 Elizabeth Wommack
RoleCollections Manager
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.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  i2635
98.874
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i2635
98.874
dwc_taxonid_added  i2635
98.874
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i2635
98.874
gbif_canonicalname_added  i2635
98.874
gbif_genericname_added  i2635
98.874
gbif_taxon_corrected  i2635
98.874
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2625
98.499
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2618
98.236
gbif_reference_added  i2603
97.674
dwc_multimedia_added  i2595
97.373
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i2586
97.036
dwc_continent_added  i2580
96.811
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i2179
81.764
geopoint_datum_missing  i1699
63.752
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1449
54.371
geopoint_datum_error  i871
32.683
dwc_family_replaced  i330
12.383
taxon_match_failed  i166
6.229
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i55
2.064
dwc_order_replaced  i41
1.538
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i36
1.351
dwc_continent_replaced  i34
1.276
rev_geocode_eez  i34
1.276
dwc_genus_replaced  i14
0.525
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i9
0.338
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2
0.075
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.038
rev_geocode_corrected  i1
0.038
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.038
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