Description
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".
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 224 records.
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:
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
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: 4fa48283-4de6-43a4-9048-1330747aaf8a. Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Oology; Neotropics; null
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Originator
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7739-2925
- Owner ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Specimens are mostly from unknown locations. It is likely many are from Trinidad and Tobago, but only a few are confirmed.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [10.717, -61.583], North East [10.717, -61.583] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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, Anatidae, Anhingidae, Apodidae, Aramidae, Caprimulgidae, Cardinalidae, Cathartidae, Ciconiidae, Coerebidae, Columbidae, Cotingidae, Cuculidae, Fregatidae, Fringillidae, Furnariidae, Galbulidae, Hirundinidae, Icteridae, Jacanidae, Momotidae, Pandionidae, Parulidae, Pelecanidae, Picidae, Pipridae, Podicipedidae, Psittacidae, Rallidae, Steatornithidae, Strigidae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tinamidae, Tyrannidae, Tytonidae, Accipitridae |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1921-08-01 / 1933-11-01 |
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Project Data
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.
| Title | Improving national biodiversity data accessibility in Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Identifier | BID-CA2020-039-NAC |
| Funding | 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 |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Originator
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Sampling Methods
Specimens were collected by hand, and were brought to the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago.
| Study Extent | Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Quality Control | Specimen identifications were checked by UWIZM. |
Method step description:
- 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.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Bibliographic Citations
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1936.tb03645.x
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=nmagtteggs |
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