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UAM Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 32,721
Media Records: 298
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The UAM Bird Collection emphasizes the birds of northwesternmost North America, including taxa endemic to Beringia and the circumpolar North, and is the best in existence for avian material from Alaska. The collection consists of over 30,000 birds. Almost all bird species and subspecies known to occur in Alaska are represented and are preserved primarily as skins, skeletons, and tissues. Most recent preparations include skin, partial skeleton, tissue, and stomach samples for each individual. Tissues are part of the UAM Genomic Resources Collection. Specimens are regularly loaned for scientific research. Specimen loan policies and a summary database are available for interested researchers. Arctos has a "storefront" subset of data in the UAM Bird Collection, and we are in the process of porting over the rest.

Contacts

Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Jack Withrow
RoleCollection Manager, Birds
Emailjjwithrow@alaska.edu
Name Kevin Winker
RoleCurator of Birds
Emailkevin.winker@alaska.edu
  • Data Corrected
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  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i31535
96.375
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i31535
96.375
dwc_taxonid_added  i31535
96.375
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i31535
96.375
gbif_canonicalname_added  i31535
96.375
gbif_genericname_added  i31535
96.375
gbif_taxon_corrected  i31535
96.375
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i31379
95.899
gbif_vernacularname_added  i31282
95.602
gbif_reference_added  i30839
94.248
dwc_multimedia_added  i30822
94.196
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i28656
87.577
dwc_continent_added  i28591
87.378
geopoint_datum_error  i20548
62.798
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i19345
59.121
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i18678
57.083
rev_geocode_eez  i4889
14.941
taxon_match_failed  i3768
11.516
dwc_continent_replaced  i3695
11.292
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3254
9.945
dwc_family_replaced  i2536
7.75
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1571
4.801
dwc_genus_replaced  i1561
4.771
dwc_order_replaced  i459
1.403
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i331
1.012
rev_geocode_mismatch  i231
0.706
geopoint_datum_missing  i56
0.171
dwc_family_added  i30
0.092
dwc_order_added  i30
0.092
dwc_class_replaced  i29
0.089
dwc_genus_added  i29
0.089
dwc_phylum_replaced  i29
0.089
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i19
0.058
rev_geocode_failure  i17
0.052
dwc_class_added  i4
0.012
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0.003
dwc_kingdom_added  i1
0.003
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.003
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