CUMV Bird Collection
Citation
Rohwer V (2018). CUMV Bird Collection. Version 28.17. Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fyugn7 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
The CUMV Bird Collection contain a record of the development of ornithology at Cornell from the earliest days of Arthur A. Allen and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Dr. Arthur A. Allen, on the faculty at Cornell from 1915–1953, made the name Cornell nearly synonymous with ornithology in the United States. Allen contributed many birds to the collection, and possibly even more importantly, attracted a very large number of students interested in birds. His numerous students contributed specimens from their research and travels all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, and other parts of the world. The CU collection contain many specimens collected by of Cornell faculty such as George M. Sutton, Charles Sibley, William Dilger, and Tom Cade, but also contains student specimens of Dean Amadon, Walter Bock, F. Graham Cooch, John Emlen, Herbert Friedmann, Ludlow Griscom, Harry Hann, Robert Mengel, Eugene Morton, Ralph Palmer, Kenneth Parkes, Olin S. Pettingill, Alan Phillips, Austin Rand, James Rising, Lester Short, Stanley Temple, Harrison Tordoff, David Wingate, as well as many others. The CUMV Bird Collection currently consists of approximately 38,300 round skins, 700 flat skins, 1,000 spread wings, 5,500 skeletons, 1,400 fluid-preserved specimens, 3,200 egg sets, 590 nests, and 1,000 uncataloged mounts. Approximately 350 of the skeletons have an associated flatskin, and approximately 150 round skins have a separate spread wing.Additional info
http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.htmlTaxonomic Coverages
The collection has a world-wide coverage, with approximately half the species of the world's birds (Wood et al. 1982) represented, as well as a number of recently extinct species (such as the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the Carolina Parakeet and the Passenger Pigeon). All families (Wetmore 1960) are represented except the Atrichornithidae.
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Geographic Coverages
Specimens are present from all continents and more than 134 different countries. The collection is particularly strong in North American material; very few species that breed or regularly occur north of Mexico are missing as skins. Strongest holdings within this area are New York, Nebraska, Texas, Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Florida, South Dakota, Colorado, Manitoba, and Alaska, but all 50 US states and 10 of the Canadian provinces and territories are represented. The area of next greatest representation is Mexico, especially the states of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tamalipas, Puebla, Nuevo Leon, and Oaxaca.
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Contacts
Vanya Rohweroriginator
position: Curator of Birds and Mammals
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1148
email: vgr7@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.cumv.cornell.edu/
Vanya Rohwer
metadata author
position: Curator of Birds and Mammals
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1148
email: vgr7@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.cumv.cornell.edu/
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
Vanya Rohwer
point of contact
position: Curator of Birds & Mammals
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1148
email: vgr7@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.cumv.cornell.edu/
Vanya Rohwer
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Birds and Mammals
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca
14850
NY
US
Telephone: +1 607-254-1148
email: vgr7@cornell.edu
homepage: http://www.cumv.cornell.edu/