Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection

Danae Frier1, Ray Poulin1

1 Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2340 Albert St, S4P 2V7, Regina, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Danae Frier (danae.frier@gov.sk.ca)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rskm-owlpellets

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Mammalia, Amphibia, Aves, Reptilia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This collection contains specimens primarily from Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, as well as some neighbouring states to the south.
Coordinates: 48°16'59.49''N and 60°17'0.27''N Latitude; 120°19'20.16''W and 98°52'37.03''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1996 - 2016

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: RSKM
Collection name: Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Collection identifier: RSKM

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Owl Pellet Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=rskm-owlpellets
Publication date of data: 2020-06-12
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-05-28
Hierarchy level: Dataset