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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)
Associate Curator: Jay Taylor, jetaylo6@asu.edu
Homepage: https://biokic.asu.edu/collections
ASU Vertebrate Tissue Collection: https://csvcoll.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=1060
Specimen Loan and Collection Use Request Form: https://forms.gle/fmnqR36MYTeQdyZT8
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)
Address:
Arizona State University (Rowsey D.)
734 W Alameda Drive
Tempe, Arizona   85282
USA
(480) 727-5870
Collection Statistics
  • 1,415 specimen records
  • 153 (11%) georeferenced
  • 1,341 (95%) identified to species
  • 79 families
  • 283 genera
  • 463 species
  • 479 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics