Descrição
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".
Registros de Dados
Os dados deste recurso de ocorrência foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 224 registros.
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.
Versões
A tabela abaixo mostra apenas versões de recursos que são publicamente acessíveis.
Como citar
Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:
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
Direitos
Pesquisadores devem respeitar a seguinte declaração de direitos:
O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é Test Organization #1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: 4fa48283-4de6-43a4-9048-1330747aaf8a. Test Organization #1 publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por GBIF Secretariat.
Palavras-chave
Occurrence; Specimen; Oology; Neotropics; null
Contatos
- Provedor Dos Metadados ●
- Originador ●
- Ponto De Contato
- Database Assistant
- The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
- Originador
- Curator of Zoology and Anatomy
- Provedor Dos Metadados ●
- Originador
- Museum Technician
- Provedor Dos Metadados ●
- Ponto De Contato
- Senior Lecturer in Zoology
- The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
- Proprietário ●
- Ponto De Contato
- Curator
- Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Cobertura Geográfica
Specimens are mostly from unknown locations. It is likely many are from Trinidad and Tobago, but only a few are confirmed.
Coordenadas delimitadoras | Sul Oeste [10,717, -61,583], Norte Leste [10,717, -61,583] |
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Cobertura Taxonômica
This dataset consists of 102 species from 37 families belonging to the Phylum Chordata, Class Aves. Eggs were identified to species and subspecies level.
Família | 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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Cobertura Temporal
Data Inicial / Data final | 1921-08-01 / 1933-11-01 |
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Dados Sobre o Projeto
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.
Título | Improving national biodiversity data accessibility in Trinidad and Tobago |
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Identificador | BID-CA2020-039-NAC |
Financiamento | 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 |
O pessoal envolvido no projeto:
- Originador
- Ponto De Contato
Métodos de Amostragem
Specimens were collected by hand, and were brought to the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago.
Área de Estudo | Trinidad and Tobago |
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Controle de Qualidade | Specimen identifications were checked by UWIZM. |
Descrição dos passos do método:
- 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.
Dados de Coleção
Nome da Coleção | Bird eggs from the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago |
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Métodos de preservação do espécime | Outro |
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Citações bibliográficas
- 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
Metadados Adicionais
Identificadores alternativos | https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=nmagtteggs |
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