Description
The bird collection at the NTNU University Museum goes back to approximately 1800. It consists mainly of objects from the norwegian mainland, but also has a small historic collection of birds collected between 1860 and 1910 from all over the world (app. 450 objects). This historic collection includes many species which today are endangered, threatened or distinct. The collection consists mainly of mounted objects, but there are also some skeletons, skulls and objects preserved on ethanol. From the latest years there are also preserved tissue samples of almost all new objects. These samples are stored at -80 degrees C. The geographic coverage of the objects in this collection is mainly Norwegian mainland. Within Norway mainland the majority of objects collected origins from central Norway.
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 19,696 records.
3 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:
Hårsaker K (2025). Bird collection NTNU University Museum. Version 1.1548. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Occurrence dataset. https://gbif.vm.ntnu.no/resource?r=bird_collection_ntnu_vm&v=1.1548
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 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: c6a2ecf7-f9d2-4443-91b6-199f00aa01a2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- User
- Collection manager
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2490-2848
- Point Of Contact
- Senior Curator
Geographic Coverage
The geographic coverage of the objects in this collection is mainly Norwegian mainland. Within Norway mainland the majority of objects collected origins from central Norway. There is also a small historic collection of birds collected between 1860 and 1910 from all over the world (app. 450 objects).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | c6a2ecf7-f9d2-4443-91b6-199f00aa01a2 |
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| https://gbif.vm.ntnu.no/resource?r=bird_collection_ntnu_vm |