Arizona State University Ornithology Collection (ASU-ASUORC)
The Ornithology Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 2,000 specimens representing more than 300 species, with a geographic concentration in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. To date, approximately half of the collection has been digitized and is accessible in the portal. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUORC######.
Collection Manager: Dakota Rowsey, drowsey@asu.edu, (480)727-5870 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-5925-0579)
Homepage: https://biokic.asu.edu/collections
ASU Vertebrate Tissue Collection: https://csvcoll.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=1060
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 87196e60-6000-4e05-989f-c2a90b78f9f9
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://csvcoll.org/portal/content/dwca/ASU-ASUORC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/5f9cac91-3b5d-41df-8200-883a68aa2a17
Address:
Arizona State University
734 W Alameda Drive
Tempe, Arizona 85282
USA
(480) 727-5870
Collection Statistics
- 1,392 specimen records
- 130 (9%) georeferenced
- 1,220 (88%) identified to species
- 75 families
- 271 genera
- 438 species
- 450 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)