Occurrence

Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection

Latest version published by Royal Saskatchewan Museum on 12 June 2020 Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 92,822 records in English (1 MB) - Update frequency: annually
Metadata as an EML file download in English (9 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 KB)

Description

The RSM has 86,000 small mammals identified from more than 10,000 owl pellet collections across the Canadians grassland region. Pellets also include reptiles, amphibians, birds, and insects but most of these have not been sorted or identified. Most of the pellets were collected from Great Horned Owls and Burrowing Owls between 1997 and 2016.

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 92,822 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Frier D (2020): Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection. v2.3. Royal Saskatchewan Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/f0xsbu

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Saskatchewan 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: 61bf28a5-29e5-4a58-86d7-3e7ed74ec048.  Royal Saskatchewan Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Danae Frier
  • Metadata Provider
  • Custodian Steward
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Curatorial Assistant - Vertebrate Zoology
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
2340 Albert St
S4P 2V7 Regina
Saskatchewan
CA
3067874852
Ray Poulin
  • Curator
  • Point Of Contact
Head of Research and Collections, Curator - Vertebrate Zoology
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
2340 Albert St
S4P 2V7 Regina
Saskatchewan
CA
3067872801

Geographic Coverage

This collection contains specimens primarily from Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, as well as some neighbouring states to the south.

Bounding Coordinates South West [48.283, -120.322], North East [60.283, -98.877]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Mammalia, Amphibia, Aves, Reptilia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1996-01-01 / 2016-01-01

Collection Data

Collection Name Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Collection Identifier RSKM
Parent Collection Identifier RSKM

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/f0xsbu
61bf28a5-29e5-4a58-86d7-3e7ed74ec048
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rskm-owlpellets