Description
The Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHM-DK) is a research centre associated with the University of Copenhagen. Their library has begun the digitization of the field notebooks, journal publications and books held in their library, some of which have significant historic value. The information in this dataset comes from a particular classic literature compilation digitized called_ ‘Birds at the Danish Lighthouses, 1883–1939’ (In Danish, ‘Fuglene ved de danske Fyr, 1883–1939’). In the period 1883-1939, there were 45 lighthouses and lightships functioning in Denmark. These lighthouses were used by several species of birds during the nights of the bird migration period from the years 1886 through 1939. The presence and activities of these birds were recorded, especially by the keepers of these lighthouses who also collected specimens that were sent to the museum in Copenhagen. These birds were carefully preserved and cataloged by collection managers at the museum and the specimens can still be found there today. Observations of weather conditions during the nights when birds were observed by the keepers were also documented.
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 1,212 records.
2 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.
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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
NHM-DK N (2022): Birds at the Danish Lighthouses, 1883–1939. v1.0. No organisation. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=birdslighthouses-uc3-dl-4-forpublication&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 455f02cb-a4ec-4f17-90d2-f5313ecc11e1. Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Originator
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Geographic Coverage
The geographic coverage of this dataset is Denmark.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [54.725, 7.229], North East [57.798, 11.03] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=birdslighthouses-uc3-dl-4-forpublication |
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