Occurrence

Royal BC Museum - Ornithology Collection

Latest version published by Royal British Columbia Museum on 06 May 2024 Royal British Columbia Museum
Publication date:
06 May 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The Royal BC Museum’s ornithology collection contains over 101,861 vertebrate specimens, in a wide range of life-history stages from eggs, eggshells, bird nests, preserved embryos and newly hatched or neonate animals to fully adult individuals. About 450 species of birds are represented in this collection, with more added every year.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 22,700 records.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal British Columbia Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 843cc7a8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Royal British Columbia Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Anna Chinn
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Collection Manager, Birds and Mammals
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
V8W 9W2 Victoria
British Columbia
CA
Chris Adams
  • Point Of Contact
Data Steward
Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
V8W 9W2 Victoria
British Columbia
CA
Carole Sinou

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 843cc7a8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://doi.org/10.15468/egnix1
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rbcm-ornithology