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UAM Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 41,158
Media Records: 299
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

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 David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
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
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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i35488
86.224
dwc_continent_added  i35225
85.585
geopoint_datum_error  i26957
65.496
dwc_datasetid_added  i26276
63.842
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i26276
63.842
dwc_taxonid_added  i26276
63.842
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i26276
63.842
gbif_canonicalname_added  i26276
63.842
gbif_genericname_added  i26276
63.842
gbif_taxon_corrected  i26276
63.842
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i26187
63.626
gbif_vernacularname_added  i25594
62.185
dwc_multimedia_added  i25090
60.96
gbif_reference_added  i22077
53.64
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i18257
44.358
dwc_specificepithet_added  i16454
39.978
geopoint_low_precision  i13943
33.877
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i10485
25.475
rev_geocode_eez  i6280
15.258
taxon_match_failed  i3489
8.477
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3350
8.139
dwc_continent_replaced  i1989
4.833
dwc_family_replaced  i1611
3.914
rev_geocode_mismatch  i759
1.844
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i321
0.78
dwc_genus_replaced  i96
0.233
dwc_order_replaced  i63
0.153
rev_geocode_corrected  i30
0.073
dwc_class_replaced  i29
0.07
dwc_family_added  i29
0.07
dwc_genus_added  i29
0.07
dwc_order_added  i29
0.07
dwc_phylum_replaced  i29
0.07
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i21
0.051
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i19
0.046
rev_geocode_failure  i17
0.041
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i7
0.017
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i4
0.01
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.005
dwc_class_added  i1
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.002