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ISM Ornithology Collection

Specimen Records: 12,289
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-09-22

The Illinois State Museum's zoology collections contain over 140,000 specimens representing mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and mollusks. The museum's collections of vertebrate skeletons and fresh water mollusks are among the most extensive of their type in the U.S. They include large series for many Midwestern species and constitute one of the best comparative collections in the country for the identification of animal remains from archaeological, paleontological, and contemporary forensic contexts.

Contacts

Name Meredith Mahoney
RoleAssistant Curator of Zoology
EmailMeredith.Mahoney@illinois.gov
Name Meredith Mahoney
RoleAssistant Curator of Zoology
EmailMeredith.Mahoney@illinois.gov
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Progammer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Meredith Mahoney
RoleAssistant Curator of Zoology
EmailMeredith.Mahoney@illinois.gov
  • 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
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97.543
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97.543
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97.543
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97.543
gbif_canonicalname_added  i11987
97.543
gbif_genericname_added  i11987
97.543
gbif_taxon_corrected  i11987
97.543
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96.94
gbif_vernacularname_added  i11756
95.663
gbif_reference_added  i11616
94.524
dwc_multimedia_added  i11403
92.79
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90.528
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67.28
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60.843
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11.417
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9.537
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7.063
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3.564
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1.343
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1.229
dwc_continent_replaced  i56
0.456
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i16
0.13
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i10
0.081
dwc_order_replaced  i2
0.016
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.008
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