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University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 3,146
Media Records: 21
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The UWYMV Bird Collection is housed in the Robert and Carol Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center on the campus of the University of Wyoming. It is a part of the Department of Zoology and Physiology. The collection was started in 1894 and Wilbur C. Knight, the state geologist, was appointed as the first curator. The museum's mission was to document and describe Wyoming's avian biodiversity. There was a brief period of active collecting by Knight and Charles W. Gilmore in 1897 and 1898. This was followed by a period of inactivity until the arrival of Ernest Pilsbury Walker as an undergraduate. He collected specimens around the southeastern part of the state from 1910 through 1912. He also contributed his personal collection from Sheridan, Indiana. Beyond sporadic trading and salvaging, the collection has been mostly inactive for the past 100 years until Matt Carling was hired as curator and James Maley was hired as collections manager. The collection was moved into the Berry Center and organized, and it is now undergoing rapid expansion.

Contacts

Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.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 Elizabeth Wommack
RoleCollections Manager
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.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  i3114
98.983
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3114
98.983
dwc_taxonid_added  i3114
98.983
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3114
98.983
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3114
98.983
gbif_genericname_added  i3114
98.983
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3114
98.983
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i3104
98.665
gbif_vernacularname_added  i3097
98.442
gbif_reference_added  i3082
97.966
dwc_multimedia_added  i3074
97.711
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i3065
97.425
dwc_continent_added  i3059
97.235
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i2657
84.456
geopoint_datum_missing  i1687
53.624
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1452
46.154
geopoint_datum_error  i1348
42.848
dwc_family_replaced  i330
10.49
taxon_match_failed  i167
5.308
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i55
1.748
dwc_order_replaced  i41
1.303
dwc_continent_replaced  i36
1.144
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i36
1.144
rev_geocode_eez  i32
1.017
dwc_genus_replaced  i14
0.445
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i9
0.286
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2
0.064
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.032
rev_geocode_corrected  i1
0.032
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.032
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