Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection
Latest version published by Royal Saskatchewan Museum on Jun 12, 2020
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.
Downloads
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 |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (9 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
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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
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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] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia, Amphibia, Aves, Reptilia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1996-01-01 / 2016-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Royal Saskatchewan Museum |
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| Collection Identifier | RSKM |
| Parent Collection Identifier | RSKM |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/f0xsbu |
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| 61bf28a5-29e5-4a58-86d7-3e7ed74ec048 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rskm-owlpellets |