https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=nmagtteggs Ariel Dalrymple The University of the West Indies Database Assistant

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus St. Augustine TT

ariel_dalrymple@yahoo.com Alex Sansom Birds Caribbean Ornithologist redshank.girl@googlemail.com Mike Rutherford The University of Glasgow Curator of Zoology and Anatomy

Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland Glasgow GB

mike.rutherford@glasgow.ac.uk Jennalee Ramnarine The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum Museum Technician

St. Augustine TT

jennalee.ramnarine@sta.uwi.edu Amy Deacon The University of the West Indies Senior Lecturer in Zoology

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus St. Augustine TT

amy.deacon@sta.uwi.edu 0000-0002-7739-2925 Ariel Dalrymple The University of the West Indies Database Assistant

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus St. Augustine TT

ariel_dalrymple@yahoo.com Jennalee Ramnarine The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum Museum Technician

St. Augustine TT

jennalee.ramnarine@sta.uwi.edu Lorraine Johnson National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago Curator

Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad Port of Spain TT

lorraine.johnson@gov.tt owner 2023-04-19 eng This dataset contains bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The collection is composed of 823 clutches of eggs identified to the level of either species or subspecies. In 2014, the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad & Tobago transferred their off-display natural history specimens to the UWIZM. As a result, these specimens are all stored in the Zoology Room of the UWIZM. The contents of each egg have been removed via a small hole, leaving the preserved and (in most cases) complete eggshell. Little is known about the origins of this collection, but it seems possible that many of the eggs were collected by Sir Charles Belcher & G. D. Smooker and connected to their 1936 publication "Birds of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago". Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen Oology Neotropics null GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Specimens are mostly from unknown locations. It is likely many are from Trinidad and Tobago, but only a few are confirmed. -61.583 -61.583 10.717 10.717 1921-08-01 1933-11-01 This dataset consists of 102 species from 37 families belonging to the Phylum Chordata, Class Aves. Eggs were identified to species and subspecies level. family Alcedinidae family Anatidae family Anhingidae family Apodidae family Aramidae family Caprimulgidae family Cardinalidae family Cathartidae family Ciconiidae family Coerebidae family Columbidae family Cotingidae family Cuculidae family Fregatidae family Fringillidae family Furnariidae family Galbulidae family Hirundinidae family Icteridae family Jacanidae family Momotidae family Pandionidae family Parulidae family Pelecanidae family Picidae family Pipridae family Podicipedidae family Psittacidae family Rallidae family Steatornithidae family Strigidae family Thamnophilidae family Thraupidae family Tinamidae family Tyrannidae family Tytonidae family Accipitridae unkown Amy Deacon The University of the West Indies Senior Lecturer in Zoology

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus St. Augustine TT

amy.deacon@sta.uwi.edu 0000-0002-7739-2925 Lorraine Johnson National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago Curator

Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad Port of Spain TT

lorraine.johnson@gov.tt Ariel Dalrymple The University of the West Indies Database Assistant

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus St. Augustine TT

ariel_dalrymple@yahoo.com Alex Sansom Birds Caribbean Ornithologist redshank.girl@googlemail.com 1. Specimens in the collection were assessed for existing data (labels, notes on the shell, details in registers, etc) 2. Identifications were confirmed or made using a variety of literature sources (scientific papers, books, online resources) 3. Specimens were photographed and properly stored, then the data was uploaded to the UWIZM Past Perfect database. Trinidad and Tobago Specimens were collected by hand, and were brought to the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. Specimen identifications were checked by UWIZM. Amy Deacon 0000-0002-7739-2925 principalInvestigator Ariel Dalrymple originator Jennalee Ramnarine pointOfContact Trinidad and Tobago supports a rich biodiversity, largely thanks to its geographical position as a pair of Caribbean islands situated just 11 km off the coast of South America. However, as a small island developing state, it faces numerous pressures of human development on biodiversity and habitat integrity. Well-functioning natural history collections are key in documenting, monitoring and managing this biodiversity. The project team is keen to build on the progress established during a previous BID regional project, which allowed the University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM) to publish more than 21,000 records to GBIF and train a range of stakeholders. This project will mobilize data from the remainder of the UWIZM collection (including an extensive and agriculturally important land arthropod collection containing 45,000 specimens) while forging partnerships with two other national institutions with significant collections. The combined collections of the UWIZM, the National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago (NH) and the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago (NMAG) hold more than 100,000 specimens. Each of the three collections will hold greater value if they are available in a consistent format from a single source. This project aims to fill data gaps by digitizing these collections. These datasets will be published on GBIF, making them easily accessible to policy-makers and other stakeholders. Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) is a multi-year programme funded by the European Union and led by GBIF with the aim of enhancing capacity for effective mobilization and use of biodiversity data in research and policy in the ‘ACP’ nations of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. More information: https://www.gbif.org/programme/82243/bid-biodiversity-information-for-development 2023-03-15T19:56:30.699+00:00 dataset Dalrymple A, Sansom A, Rutherford M, Ramnarine J, Deacon A (2023). Bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago (NMAGTT). Version 1.1. Test Organization #1. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=nmagtteggs&v=1.1 Catalogue of Life. Accessed 7th June 2022. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Belcher, S. C., & Smooker, G. D. (1936). I.—Birds of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago. Ibis, 78(1), 1-35. Bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago other https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?id=nmagtteggs/v1.1.xml