Ornithological Information System

Birds

Species

Global

Compilation

Taxonomic Group	Birds
Level of Organization	Species
Scale	Global
Data Type	Compilation

This web site hosts millions of bird specimen records indexed by taxonomy and georgraphy.Data Location: ORNIS

Data Georefferenced: Yes

Comments: This data repository compiles data from 42 institutions and 5 countries and provides a search engine for searching by specimen record, taxonomic index, and geographic index [HERE], where individual researchers and museums or similar institutions have made their collections available. Software tools are used to improve accuracy of the records including: taxonomic standardization, locality consistency, species ecology, and collector itineraries. ORNIS is part of the VertNet cooperative data network.

Citation Example: Data were obtained from records held in the following institutions and accessed through the ORNIS data portal (http://ornisnet.org) on 7 November 2005: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. [etc.].