Ornithology (CAS-ORN)

Contacts: Moe Flannery, mflannery@calacademy.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 December 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences
Address:
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
San Francisco, CA   94118
United States
Collection Statistics
  • 99,584 specimen records
  • 66,908 (67%) georeferenced
  • 91,749 (92%) identified to species
  • 167 families
  • 1,164 genera
  • 2,462 species
  • 4,725 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Actitis (124)
  • Aphriza (39)
  • Arenaria (260)
  • Bartramia (17)
  • Calidris (1308)
  • Catoptrophorus (149)
  • Gallinago (28)
  • Heteroscelus (110)
  • Limnodromus (442)
  • Limosa (139)
  • Lymnocryptes (1)
  • Numenius (252)
  • Phalaropus (543)
  • Philomachus (5)
  • Scolopax (33)
  • Tringa (285)
  • Tryngites (2)
  • Xenus (1)