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DMNS Bird Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 58,731
Media Records: 1,055
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

he Denver Museum of Nature & Science bird collection contains approximately 53,000 specimens from around the world (1842 to the present), with a focus on the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. The collection is worldwide in scope (six out of seven continents represented) with excellent taxonomic coverage of class Aves (205 out of ~224 families represented). Ordinal representation is excellent; however, more than half of the birds in the collection belong to Passeriformes. The collection includes study skins, skeletal material (~5,000, most with associated skin), taxidermy mounts, frozen tissue samples (~12,000), and associated parasites (ecto- and endoparasites). Growth of the collection continues primarily through salvage activities. The 7,000 egg sets/nests are curated separately - this collection is also global in scope with a focus on North America and Europe.

Contacts

Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Garth Spellman
RoleCurator of Ornithology
EmailGarth.Spellman@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleZoology Collections Manager
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i57341
97.633
dwc_continent_added  i57303
97.569
geopoint_datum_error  i49950
85.049
dwc_datasetid_added  i46415
79.03
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i46415
79.03
dwc_taxonid_added  i46415
79.03
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i46415
79.03
gbif_canonicalname_added  i46415
79.03
gbif_genericname_added  i46415
79.03
gbif_taxon_corrected  i46415
79.03
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i46240
78.732
gbif_vernacularname_added  i43730
74.458
dwc_multimedia_added  i43309
73.741
gbif_reference_added  i32347
55.077
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i31360
53.396
dwc_specificepithet_added  i24702
42.06
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i12698
21.621
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i6098
10.383
dwc_family_replaced  i5052
8.602
taxon_match_failed  i4762
8.108
geopoint_low_precision  i2507
4.269
rev_geocode_eez  i1655
2.818
dwc_continent_replaced  i1262
2.149
dwc_order_replaced  i576
0.981
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i421
0.717
rev_geocode_mismatch  i64
0.109
dwc_genus_replaced  i60
0.102
dwc_genus_added  i54
0.092
dwc_class_replaced  i53
0.09
dwc_family_added  i53
0.09
dwc_order_added  i53
0.09
dwc_phylum_replaced  i53
0.09
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i28
0.048
rev_geocode_corrected  i7
0.012
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i4
0.007
rev_geocode_failure  i3
0.005
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0.003
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.002
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