And I am reminded that the sounds of birds that show up in Ohio (and
elsewhere) can be studied at http://BLB.osu.edu . OSU also has an egg
collection that ranks among the top ten in the USA: I and a friend
mostly did the data for more than 10,000 eggs of North America---want to
examine a slaty-backed gull egg? No problem. I can dig up this database
for anyone really interested...
BW
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Subject: FW: [Ohio-birds] Museum birding
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:54:42 +0000
From: Gaunt, Sandra <[log in to unmask]>
To: Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]>
And you could add the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustic's sound
collection at the Museum of Biological Diversity. All sounds are on
line with meta data. Address below. Sandy
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Sandra L. L. Gaunt Phone Home: 614-876-5829
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Cell: 614-581-1925
Curator, retired 4795 Hayden Blvd
Museum of Biological Diversity Columbus OH 43221
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus OH 43212-1192
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Museum birding
With the spring migration winding down, some folks might be more
interested in learning about birds by searching the websites of natural
history museums. Some institutions offer photos of specimens, and of
course data about dates, place of collection, etc.
Local birders in Columbus did most of the basic data entry for
the OSU
Museum collections of tetrapods, including birds. After vetting, these
data have been made public on the Web at the idigbio site. To have a
look at the birds, I recommend
https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/3b9ecf1e-3c04-4d8b-84cd-9ae48e70e13a
. You can search and scroll down through data on 26,079 OSUM bird
specimens. Other collections we helped to catalog include those for
amphibians, reptiles, and mammals; data for insects and fish were
assembled earlier by others and are listed in the catalog.
The Cincinnati Museum Center bird collection is available on
this site
at
https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/65c412fe-1f9f-4f10-aa75-9845b66ef235
. I can't find listings for any from the Cleveland Museum of Natural
History. I hope this collection will be available eventually, as it,
like Cincinnati's, is larger than OSU's.
If some readers consider this merely nerdy, I offer this
anecdote. It
is quite possible to find rare birds in these lists of specimens. I, in
fact, found two new North American species in the OSU collection; an
article about them with photos will appear in Birding magazine soon. I
know there are treasures in the Cincinnati and Cleveland museums: the
Cinci collections include, for example, specimens from Audubon himself
(he worked in the Museum for a while), and a lot of curious old things.
Happy birding in these resources!
Bill Whan
Columbus
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