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".
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 224 enregistrements.
Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.
Versions
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
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
Droits
Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:
L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Test Organization #1. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 4fa48283-4de6-43a4-9048-1330747aaf8a. Test Organization #1 publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du GBIF Secretariat.
Mots-clé
Occurrence; Specimen; Oology; Neotropics; null
Contacts
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Créateur ●
- Personne De Contact
- Database Assistant
- The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
- Créateur
- Curator of Zoology and Anatomy
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Créateur
- Museum Technician
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Personne De Contact
- Senior Lecturer in Zoology
- The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
- Propriétaire ●
- Personne De Contact
- Curator
- Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Couverture géographique
Specimens are mostly from unknown locations. It is likely many are from Trinidad and Tobago, but only a few are confirmed.
Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [10,717, -61,583], Nord Est [10,717, -61,583] |
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Couverture taxonomique
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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Couverture temporelle
Date de début / Date de fin | 1921-08-01 / 1933-11-01 |
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Données sur le projet
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.
Titre | Improving national biodiversity data accessibility in Trinidad and Tobago |
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Identifiant | BID-CA2020-039-NAC |
Financement | 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 |
Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:
- Créateur
- Personne De Contact
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
Specimens were collected by hand, and were brought to the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago.
Etendue de l'étude | Trinidad and Tobago |
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Contrôle qualité | Specimen identifications were checked by UWIZM. |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- 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.
Données de collection
Nom de la collection | Bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago |
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Méthode de conservation des spécimens | Other |
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Citations bibliographiques
- 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
Métadonnées additionnelles
Identifiants alternatifs | https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=nmagtteggs |
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