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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection

Specimen Records: 526,672
Media Records: 5,222
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-08-14

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
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95.294
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95.294
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95.294
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95.294
dwc_taxonrank_added  i501888
95.294
gbif_canonicalname_added  i501888
95.294
gbif_genericname_added  i501888
95.294
gbif_taxon_corrected  i501888
95.294
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i495625
94.105
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i492934
93.594
gbif_vernacularname_added  i484020
91.902
gbif_reference_added  i477610
90.685
dwc_multimedia_added  i452717
85.958
geopoint_datum_missing  i212872
40.418
dwc_country_replaced  i206549
39.218
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37.333
dwc_family_replaced  i120685
22.915
dwc_genus_replaced  i58955
11.194
taxon_match_failed  i47459
9.011
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i39533
7.506
geopoint_low_precision  i35120
6.668
rev_geocode_mismatch  i27383
5.199
rev_geocode_corrected  i25487
4.839
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i25364
4.816
dwc_order_replaced  i19970
3.792
rev_geocode_eez  i18500
3.513
rev_geocode_failure  i11528
2.189
dwc_continent_replaced  i4186
0.795
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1445
0.274
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i964
0.183
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i829
0.157
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i805
0.153
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i141
0.027
dwc_family_added  i140
0.027
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i139
0.026
dwc_genus_added  i124
0.024
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i123
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
datecollected_bounds  i9
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0
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