Aves Tanzanian collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)

Jon Fjeldså1

1 The natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen OE, Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Jon Fjeldså (jfjeldsaa@snm.ku.dk)

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Aves Tanzanian collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)

Abstract

Collections from Tanzania and the Eastern Arc Mts in particular, in the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark.  The Zoological Museum of the Natural History Museum has a long tradition for field work in Tanzania, and in particular in the forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains. In addition to these recent collecting efforts, the museum houses bird material collected 1947-67 in all parts of the country by the Danish plantation owner Thorkild Andersen. Today, our bird collections from Tanzania are among the largest in the world. We should like to see our collections and the associated data being increasingly utilized for scientific research, conservation and education, and to fulfill this goal we are here making part of the data available online. 9605 records, covering 18 Orders; 64 Families; 283 Genera; 621 Species. 1503 records with image links.

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt3.gbif-uat.org/resource?r=aves-tanzanian

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: taxonomic authority: The Clements Checklist of Birds, Sixth Edition
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Aves

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Specimens collected from Tanzania.
Coordinates: 11°43'48''S and 0°30'0''S Latitude; 28°40'12''E and 40°24'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 5, 1810 - December 31, 2012

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Aves Tanzanian collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt3.gbif-uat.org/archive.do?r=aves-tanzanian
Publication date of data: 2024-02-05
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-01-05
Hierarchy level: Dataset