Occurrence dataset Registered April 13, 2013
MVZ Bird Collection (Arctos)
Description
The MVZ bird collection is one of the largest in the United States. It houses over 185,000 catalogued specimens, including 174 holotype and 2 syntypes. The majority of specimens are study skins, but the collection also contains over 21,000 skeletal specimens and 3,200 fluid-preserved specimens. Other types of preparations include flat specimens (wings, skins) and body skins with skeletons ("schmoos"). Tissues, anatomical parts (e.g., syrinx, stomach contents), and parasites are routinely preserved with specimens. Many specimens also are associated with cataloged audio recordings.
Geographic scope
- Description
The MVZ bird collections are global. Geographic strengths are western North America from Alaska and British Columbia through southern Mexico. In addition, there are major series of specimens from Central America (especially Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica), South America (in particular, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, and Argentina), the Hawaiian Islands, the South Pacific, Australia, and Africa.
- Bounding box
- Latitude
- From -90 to 90
- Longitude
- From -180 to 180
Temporal scope
- verbatim
- 1832 to present
Taxonomic scope
- Description
The collection is taxonomically synoptic, with representatives of every Recent order of birds. For most orders there is at least 70% representation at the generic level.
- Coverage
- Aves
Metrics
Additional info
Contacts
- Organization
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
- Position
- Staff Curator of Birds
- Address
- 3101 Valley Life Science Building
- Roles
- Originator
Metadata author
Administrative point of contact - Phone
- Organization
- VertNet
- Position
- VertNet Programmer
- Roles
- Programmer
- Position
- VertNet Coordinator
- Roles
- Programmer
- Organization
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
- Position
- Information Architect
- Roles
- Programmer
- Organization
- University of Alaska Museum
- Position
- Arctos Database Programmer
- Roles
- Point of contact
- Organization
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
- Position
- Faculty Curator of Birds
- Address
- 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
- Roles
- Point of contact
- Phone
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- April 13, 2013
- Metadata last modified
- December 28, 2024
- Publication date
- December 28, 2024
- Hosted by
- VertNet
- Installation
- IPT - Hosted by VertNet
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/r1woj3
- Alternative identifiers