ECOT EcoTarium Ornithology Collection

Shana Hawrylchak

doi:10.15468/ivvirb

ECOT EcoTarium Ornithology Collection

Citation

Hawrylchak S (2017). ECOT EcoTarium Ornithology Collection. Version 1.3. Worcester Society of Natural History d.b.a. EcoTarium. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ivvirb accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

The Worcester Society of Natural History d.b.a. EcoTarium was founded in 1825 as the Worcester Lyceum of Natural History and is the second oldest natural history collecting organization in the United States. The EcoTarium’s collection contains approximately 55,000 pieces. The scope of the EcoTarium’s collection is wide ranging including taxa from herpetology to entomology with concentrations in New England, but also containing specimens from around the world. The majority pieces in the collection were collected between 1870 and 1940.
The majority of the Museum’s ornithology collection is comprised of specimens from the Thayer Ornithological Collection accessioned in 1967. The Thayer Ornithological Collection was collected by renowned ornithologist John Eliot Thayer for his personal Museum in Lancaster, Massachusetts from roughly 1880 until his death in 1933. The collection had a world geographic focus and contains males, females, and juveniles of most species represented as well as many endangered and extinct specimens. The Thayer specimens held at the Museum are all mounts, study skins from this same collection are held at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Taxonomic Coverages

Aves
common name: birds rank: class
Chordata
common name: vertebrates rank: phylum
Animalia
common name: animals rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Shana Hawrylchak
originator
position: Manager of Exhibits and Collections
222 Harrington Way
Worchester
01604
Massachusetts
US
Telephone: +01 508-929-2733
email: shawrylchak@ecotarium.org

Shana Hawrylchak
metadata author
position: Manager of Exhibits and Collections
222 Harrington Way
Worchester
01604
Massachusetts
US
Telephone: +01 508-929-2733
email: shawrylchak@ecotarium.org

Joanna McCaffrey
programmer
position: Biodiversity Informatics Manager
iDigBio
US
email: jmccaffrey@flmnh.ufl.edu

Shana Hawrylchak
administrative point of contact
position: Manager of Exhibits and Collections
222 Harrington Way
Worchester
01604
Massachusetts
US
Telephone: +01 508-929-2733
email: shawrylchak@ecotarium.org