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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection

Specimen Records: 535,114
Media Records: 5,297
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-09-13

The Division of Birds houses the third largest scientific bird collection in the United States. The main collection contains over 480,000 specimens, including 600 holotypes, 70,000 skeletons, and 7,000 fluid specimens. In addition, the division houses 21,000 egg sets and 200 nests. The scope of the collection is world-wide; all bird families but one are represented, as are 90% of the world's genera and species. Included among its many historically and scientifically valuable individual collections are the H. B. Conover Game Bird Collection, Good's and Van Someren's African collections, C. B. Cory's West Indian collection, the Bishop Collection of North American birds, a large portion of W. Koelz's material from India and the Middle East, and many separate collections from South America, Africa (Hoogstraal from Egypt) and the Philippines (Rabor).

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
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 Laura Russell
RoleProgrammer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name John Bates
RoleCurator
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
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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  i509817
95.273
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95.273
dwc_taxonid_added  i509817
95.273
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i509817
95.273
dwc_taxonrank_added  i509817
95.273
gbif_canonicalname_added  i509817
95.273
gbif_genericname_added  i509817
95.273
gbif_taxon_corrected  i509817
95.273
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i500843
93.596
gbif_vernacularname_added  i491899
91.924
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i485650
90.756
gbif_reference_added  i485299
90.691
dwc_multimedia_added  i460572
86.07
dwc_country_replaced  i214949
40.169
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i201189
37.597
dwc_family_replaced  i122570
22.905
geopoint_datum_missing  i67369
12.59
dwc_genus_replaced  i60056
11.223
taxon_match_failed  i48341
9.034
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i40042
7.483
geopoint_low_precision  i34540
6.455
rev_geocode_mismatch  i22076
4.125
dwc_order_replaced  i20207
3.776
rev_geocode_corrected  i20159
3.767
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i20022
3.742
rev_geocode_eez  i18495
3.456
rev_geocode_failure  i11444
2.139
dwc_continent_replaced  i4180
0.781
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1922
0.359
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1445
0.27
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i810
0.151
datecollected_bounds  i160
0.03
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i141
0.026
dwc_family_added  i140
0.026
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i139
0.026
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i137
0.026
dwc_genus_added  i124
0.023
dwc_class_replaced  i101
0.019
dwc_phylum_replaced  i101
0.019
dwc_order_added  i96
0.018
geopoint_0_coord  i75
0.014
geopoint_datum_error  i5
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0
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