Ornithology Collection NRM

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Swedish Museum of Natural History on Jan 7, 2025 Swedish Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
7 January 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The bird collection is among the largest in the world. The material includes skins, skeletons, alcohol preparations, eggs, as well as blood and tissue samples. The collection of skins is one of the world's largest and most species-rich, with 65% of the world's species represented. The skeleton collection, on the other hand, is relatively incomplete because it was more common to put whole birds in alcohol during collection trips in the past, rather than skeletonizing the animals. The last major review of bird types at the Swedish Museum of Natural History was made by Nils Gyldenstolpe in 1926, and the list includes a total of 283 types.

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 66,815 records.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. 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: 87ed95eb-4ead-465e-9c3a-7d9e9be4035d.  Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Ulf Johansson
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
  • 0851955140
Manash Shah
  • User
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
Kevin Holston
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 87ed95eb-4ead-465e-9c3a-7d9e9be4035d
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-birds