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Ohio Wesleyan University Bird Specimens (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 2,287
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-01-23

The ornithological collection is the largest department of the Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. The collection consists of study skins, mounted birds, eggs, nests, skeletons, bones, and feathers. The majority of the study skins and mounted birds are native to Ohio, with several from Australia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East. The egg collection houses specimens from across the United States, in addition to a substantial collection of eggs from Indian birds donated in the 1920s. The collection also includes a selection of wooden birds carved by former professor of zoology, Dr. William D. Stull.

Contacts

Name Josh Pletcher
RoleStudent Curator
Emailjrpletch@owu.edu
Name Lisa Tabak
RoleCuratorial Director
Emaillmtabak@owu.edu
Name Josh Pletcher
RoleStudent Curator
Emailjrpletch@owu.edu
Name Lisa Tabak
RoleCuratorial Director
Emaillmtabak@owu.edu
Name Dustin Reichard
RoleAssistant Professor of Zoology
Emaildgreicha@owu.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertnet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildustymc@gmail.com
Name Josh Pletcher
RoleStudent Curator
Emailjrpletch@owu.edu
Name Lisa Tabak
RoleCuratorial Director
Emaillmtabak@owu.edu
  • 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_added  i2207
96.502
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i2207
96.502
dwc_taxonid_added  i2207
96.502
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i2207
96.502
gbif_canonicalname_added  i2207
96.502
gbif_genericname_added  i2207
96.502
gbif_taxon_corrected  i2207
96.502
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2201
96.24
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2171
94.928
dwc_multimedia_added  i2163
94.578
gbif_reference_added  i2149
93.966
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1604
70.136
dwc_continent_added  i1578
68.999
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1263
55.225
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1084
47.398
dwc_continent_replaced  i647
28.29
taxon_match_failed  i255
11.15
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i208
9.095
geopoint_datum_error  i196
8.57
dwc_family_replaced  i163
7.127
dwc_order_replaced  i60
2.624
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i35
1.53
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i23
1.006
rev_geocode_eez  i11
0.481
dwc_genus_replaced  i10
0.437
geopoint_datum_missing  i3
0.131
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.044
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