Description
The Cowan Tetrapod Collection avian holdings of 1,803 species represent 160 families is comprised of over 16,500 study skins, 820 skeletons, 600 mounts, and 7,735 egg clutches. The oldest specimens date from the late 1840s and several extinct taxa are represented. Global in scope, the collection is especially strong in specimens collected from Western Canada, Mexico (especially Ilsas Tres Marias), and the former Transvaal region of South Africa. The collection was founded by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan and his father-in-law Kenneth Racey. Notable collections include those of H.R. Macmillan, W.S. Maguire, A.C. Brooks, and W.J. Plowden-Wardlaw. The avian collection is housed at the University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum which contains approximately 2 million natural history specimens.
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 21,375 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
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How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cowan Tetrapod Collection at the University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum (UBCBBM)
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ba0c046d-52bb-4262-a495-652988c9f3f7. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Global in scope with a particular emphasis on Western Canada, Mexico (especially Ilsas Tres Marias), and the former Transvaal region of South Africa.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All living bird orders; 72% of living bird families are represented.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1848-12-31 / 2023-11-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Cowan Tetrapod Collection - Birds |
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| Collection Identifier | CTC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Cowan Tetrapod Collection |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 16,500 and 18,000 skins , Between 7,700 and 7,800 eggs , Between 820 and 850 skeletons |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | ba0c046d-52bb-4262-a495-652988c9f3f7 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc_bbm_ctc_birds |