OCCURRENCE

RBINS Bird collection

Latest version published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences on 25 October 2024 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
The RBINS bird collection is made up of around 132,000 specimens. It includes a significant collection of skeletons and eggs as well as type material for 123 species. It is one of the institute's oldest collections and for much of the historical material, including the tropical birds, we owe our thanks to ornithologist Bernard du Bus de Gisignies, the first director of the Museum of Natural Sciences in 1848. Alphonse Dubois, who was appointed curator of the vertebrate collections in 1869, was the first to describe many of De Gisignies’ specimens. In the 1930s Zoologist René Verheyen added a great deal of material to the ornithological collections and in particular, an exceptionally large collection of Belgian and Central African fauna.
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The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 103,180 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    103180
  • ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
    319577

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GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Natural history collection; RBINS; DaRWIN; Aves; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Olivier Pauwels
Curator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Scientific Heritage Service
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who filled in the metadata:

Thomas Vandenberghe
Data manager
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE
Stijn Cooleman
Biodiversity Data Officer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE

Who else was associated with the resource:

Patrick Semal
Head of Scientific Heritage
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE
Custodian Steward
Jean-Marc Herpers
Curator of digital data
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Brussels
BE
Programmer
Franck Theeten
Database manager
Royal Museum for Central Africa
BE

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Aves

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period Since 1814

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 0c4bf92b-95c9-4a2a-9756-67d98195459f
https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_aves