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Specimen Record

ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
State/ProvinceGeorgia
County/ParishChatham County
LocalityChatham County
Latitude32.00139
Longitude-81.08333
Institution CodeUwymv
Collection CodeBird
Catalog NumberUwymv:bird:2043
Collected ByCollector(s): Unknown
Date Collected1904-03-15

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http://uwymv.org/

The UWYMV Bird Collection is housed in the Robert and Carol Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center on the campus of the University of Wyoming. It is a part of the Department of Zoology and Physiology. The collection was started in 1894 and Wilbur C. Knight, the state geologist, was appointed as the first curator. The museum's mission was to document and describe Wyoming's avian biodiversity. There was a brief period of active collecting by Knight and Charles W. Gilmore in 1897 and 1898. This was followed by a period of inactivity until the arrival of Ernest Pilsbury Walker as an undergraduate. He collected specimens around the southeastern part of the state from 1910 through 1912. He also contributed his personal collection from Sheridan, Indiana. Beyond sporadic trading and salvaging, the collection has been mostly inactive for the past 100 years until Matt Carling was hired as curator and James Maley was hired as collections manager. The collection was moved into the Berry Center and organized, and it is now undergoing rapid expansion.

Contacts

Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleCollections Manager
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
Name Matthew Carling
RoleCurator
Emailmcarling@uwyo.edu
Name Elizabeth Wommack
RoleStaff Curator
Emailewommack@uwyo.edu
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