Museon Aves Collection

Data as a DwC-A file	download 7,145 records in Dutch (460 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file	download in English (6 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file	download in English (6 KB)

Description

This collection contains stuffed birds, bellows, skeletons, skulls, liquid preparations, eggs and nests. The emphasis is on birds from the former Dutch colonies and the Palearctic region, especially the Netherlands. The collection includes rare and endangered subtropical and tropical species (CITES). The stuffed birds are especially important.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 7,145 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

7145

4922

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museon. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9fd8e0a3-5df0-4125-9643-58ca6bc52cb7. Museon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.