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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Egg Collection

Specimen Records: 21,152
Media Records: 1,123
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-10-16

The Field Museum's Bird Division egg and nest collections contains more than 500,000 data-rich specimens, our worldwide collections receive heavy use by US and international visitors and borrowers.

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
Rolenone
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Kate Webbink
RoleInformation Specialist
Emailnone
Name Ben Marks
RoleCollection Manager
Emailbmarks@fieldmuseum.org
Name Shannon Hackett
RoleAssociate Curator of Zoology, Birds
Emailshackett@fieldmuseum.org
Name Sharon Grant
Rolenone
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • 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_replaced  i20214
95.565
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i20214
95.565
dwc_taxonid_added  i20214
95.565
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i20214
95.565
dwc_taxonrank_added  i20214
95.565
gbif_canonicalname_added  i20214
95.565
gbif_genericname_added  i20214
95.565
gbif_taxon_corrected  i20214
95.565
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i20109
95.069
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i20047
94.776
gbif_vernacularname_added  i19878
93.977
dwc_multimedia_added  i19759
93.414
gbif_reference_added  i19701
93.14
dwc_country_replaced  i16120
76.21
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i9288
43.911
dwc_family_replaced  i3460
16.358
taxon_match_failed  i2629
12.429
dwc_genus_replaced  i2226
10.524
dwc_order_replaced  i2226
10.524
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i893
4.222
rev_geocode_eez  i702
3.319
geopoint_datum_missing  i178
0.842
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i167
0.79
geopoint_low_precision  i83
0.392
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i70
0.331
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i57
0.269
dwc_class_replaced  i54
0.255
dwc_family_added  i54
0.255
dwc_genus_added  i54
0.255
dwc_phylum_replaced  i54
0.255
dwc_order_added  i53
0.251
rev_geocode_mismatch  i51
0.241
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i17
0.08
rev_geocode_corrected  i14
0.066
dwc_continent_replaced  i12
0.057
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i8
0.038
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i6
0.028
rev_geocode_failure  i5
0.024
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i2
0.009
datecollected_bounds  i1
0.005
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