Ornithology Collection Non Passeriformes - Royal Ontario Museum

Specimen Records: 61,258

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2018-04-12

The collection is extremely strong in diversity of island species throughout the world. Also the collection contains significant historical collections of importance: James Henry Fleming, James A. Munro, Hoyes Lloyd, part of the Haverschmidt collection from the Guyanas, R. G. Lanning, H.B. Haugh collection of birds eggs from Southern Ontario. The Fleming collection, once considered the most comprehensive private collection of birds in North America, contains many unique collections from Africa, Europe, India, China, and Island Archipelagos of the world. Representative collections of the magnificent Birds of Paradise (Passeriformes; Paradisaeidae) and Bower Birds (Passeriformes; Ptilonorhynchidae) (from the Fleming Collection) has been described as within the top 10 in world by researchers. Sub-collections of the J.H. Fleming, J.A. Munro collections are considered historically significant to the Ornithological community. Other significant collections are The New World Sparrows (Passeriformes: Emberizidae); the North American Wood Warblers (Passeriformes: Parulidae); Shorebirds, Gulls and Auks (Charadriiformes) and the Chicken-like birds (Galliformes) of North America, New World Vireos and Allies (Passeriformes: Vireonidae). The study skin collection contains one of the largest collections in the world of extinct birds including 132 Passenger Pigeon specimens (skins) and New Zealand Huias famed for their sexually dimorphic bills. 1 specimen of the extinct Labrador Duck (1 of 54 mounted skins in world). 1 specimen of the extinct Great Auk (1 of 78 mounted skins in world), miscellaneous skeletal parts of Great Auk specimens, 14 specimens of the extinct Carolina Parakeet and many other species. The skin collection contains historically significant holdings of the highly endangered Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Passeriformes: Fringillidae Drepanididae) from the Fleming collection, 1840s through to 1913, and the famous Darwin’s finches. The frozen tissue collection contains the largest collection of blood and DNA from endangered kiwi populations in New Zealand, as well as bone shavings and DNA from the 14 extinct species of giant moas. Extensive series of New World Owls. Extensive series of New World Flycatchers. Large series of New World Sparrows.

Contacts

Name	Bradley Millen
Role	Database Technician
Email	bradm@rom.on.ca

Name	Bradley Millen
Role	Database Technician
Email	bradm@rom.on.ca

Name	Santiago Claramunt
Role	Associate Curator
Email	sclaramunt@rom.on.ca

Name	Mark Peck
Role	Collections Technician
Email	markp@rom.on.ca

Name	Santiago Claramunt
Role	Associate Curator
Email	sclaramunt@rom.on.ca

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.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
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gbif_reference_added i	58783	95.96
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dwc_family_replaced i	44911	73.315
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	31589	51.567
rev_geocode_eez i	8380	13.68
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taxon_match_failed i	4659	7.606
dwc_continent_replaced i	3923	6.404
dwc_specificepithet_replaced i	3798	6.2
dwc_genus_replaced i	3320	5.42
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rev_geocode_mismatch i	321	0.524
dwc_kingdom_suspect i	87	0.142
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dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced i	59	0.096
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dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	40	0.065
rev_geocode_failure i	14	0.023
rev_geocode_corrected i	13	0.021
rev_geocode_lat_sign i	12	0.02
geopoint_pre_flip i	11	0.018
geopoint_similar_coord i	5	0.008
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Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
05 / 2022	779,348,740	92,828	1,078	140
06 / 2022	792,145,873	95	1,398	69
07 / 2022	816,818,074	127,650	1,134	507
08 / 2022	799,756,442	123,206	2,961	164
09 / 2022	872,418,899	61,907	9,894	245
10 / 2022	1,079,664,870	369,648	3,721	20
11 / 2022	985,090,551	635,644	844	21
12 / 2022	770,454,998	108,075	959	191
01 / 2023	749,428,548	125,279	2,832	315
02 / 2023	7,145,128	0	2	0
03 / 2023	473,664,076	200	4,523	77
04 / 2023	1,005,260,796	61,615	16,132	322
05 / 2023	795,375,241	57,099	7,332	209
06 / 2023	823,823,135	61,360	2,999	128
07 / 2023	790,905,928	250,820	33,726	207
08 / 2023	745,846,627	2,159	855	233
09 / 2023	971,560,401	165,123	2,479	1,616
10 / 2023	1,260,881,069	2,237,903	4,857	1,970
11 / 2023	1,113,206,988	233,299	3,177	1,959
12 / 2023	891,281,951	2,695	35,780	2,422
01 / 2024	1,570,529,998	24,222	4,293	1,984
02 / 2024	2,164,258,421	498,565	4,600	2,142
03 / 2024	2,185,557,100	8,897,479	3,658	2,455
04 / 2024	2,771,654,421	1,619,905	1,996	1,838
05 / 2024	11,354,271,581	6,606,319	3,451	1,809
06 / 2024	4,248,261,192	854,546	2,351	2,572
07 / 2024	2,450,011,095	1,875,284	4,394	3,131
08 / 2024	5,187,380,526	2,150,689	2,943	747
09 / 2024	4,915,322,907	128,147	6,588	177
10 / 2024	3,420,727,339	6,094,318	2,591	92
11 / 2024	4,236,651,958	575,644	3,723	483
12 / 2024	2,065,317,599	2,042	1,492	395
01 / 2025	6,362,676,816	62	5,995	275
02 / 2025	3,608,715,163	174,273	3,073	262
03 / 2025	2,383,365,151	2,045,170	44,857	502
04 / 2025	3,136,583,853	1,116,854	3,112	519
05 / 2025	487,423,136	1,034	389	241

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Recordset

Ornithology Collection Non Passeriformes - Royal Ontario Museum

Contacts