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DMNS Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 57,342
Media Records: 169
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

he Denver Museum of Nature & Science bird collection contains approximately 53,000 specimens from around the world (1842 to the present), with a focus on the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. The collection is worldwide in scope (six out of seven continents represented) with excellent taxonomic coverage of class Aves (205 out of ~224 families represented). Ordinal representation is excellent; however, more than half of the birds in the collection belong to Passeriformes. The collection includes study skins, skeletal material (~5,000, most with associated skin), taxidermy mounts, frozen tissue samples (~12,000), and associated parasites (ecto- and endoparasites). Growth of the collection continues primarily through salvage activities. The 7,000 egg sets/nests are curated separately - this collection is also global in scope with a focus on North America and Europe.

Contacts

Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.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 Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleZoology Collections Manager
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
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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
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97.56
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97.531
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97.531
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97.531
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97.531
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97.531
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97.531
gbif_taxon_corrected  i55926
97.531
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97.494
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96.809
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96.186
dwc_multimedia_added  i54625
95.262
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95.098
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76.288
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56.843
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49.229
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10.936
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10.852
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10.77
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8.407
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2.886
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2.224
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1250
2.18
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1.692
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1.453
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0.945
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0.106
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0.092
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0.091
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0.091
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0.091
dwc_phylum_replaced  i52
0.091
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i28
0.049
rev_geocode_corrected  i7
0.012
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i4
0.007
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0.003
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.002
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0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_failure  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.002
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