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NCSM Ornithology Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Norton B (2016). NCSM Ornithology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ywtkfm accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-06-28.

Description

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Ornithology collection contains approximately 21,000 specimens and is one of the largest regional birds collections in the southeast.

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Animallia
    rank: kingdom
  2. Chordata
    rank: phylum
  3. Aves
    rank: class

Geographic Coverages

The Birds collection contains specimens from 46 countries.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Ben Norton
originator
position: Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones St
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org
Ben Norton
metadata author
position: Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones St
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org
John Gerwin
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Ornithology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones St
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9945
email: john.gerwin@naturalsciences.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Brian O'Shea
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager of Ornithology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones St
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9935
email: brian.oshea@naturalsciences.org
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