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Three-dimensional surface scans of the beaks of specimens of Chaffinches and other passerine birds
The data consists of 3D surface scans of the beaks of 662 museum specimens of sixteen species (representing fifteen families of passerine birds: Fringillidae, Ploceidae, Passeridae, Viduidae, Thraupidae, Estrildidae, Artamidae, Cardinalidae, Sittidae, Prunellidae, Motacillidae, Emberizidae, Alaudidae, Cinclidae, Bombycillidae). Each species has scans from between 23 and 31 specimens with the exception of chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs), with scans from 230 specimens representing fourteen subspecies. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/e53b2c4f-fc2e-47a9-b5b7-cc3a59f790ac
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-04-04
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/e53b2c4f-fc2e-47a9-b5b7-cc3a59f790ac
- Other citation details
- Thomas, G.H., Varley, Z.K., Hughes, E.C., Guillerme, T., Cooper, N., Beckerman, A.P. (2024). Three-dimensional surface scans of the beaks of specimens of Chaffinches and other passerine birds . NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e53b2c4f-fc2e-47a9-b5b7-cc3a59f790ac
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- no limitations
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- Use constraints
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Thomas, G.H., Varley, Z.K., Hughes, E.C., Guillerme, T., Cooper, N., Beckerman, A.P. (2024). Three-dimensional surface scans of the beaks of specimens of Chaffinches and other passerine birds . NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e53b2c4f-fc2e-47a9-b5b7-cc3a59f790ac
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Distribution format
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Polygon File Format (.ply)
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Polygon File Format (.ply)
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- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
- Other
- nonGeographicDataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The data were generated using a MechScan Macro 3D structured white light scanner. All scans were taken at the Natural History Museum, Akeman Street, Tring. Scans were processed using FlexScan3D and output as ply format files. Linear measurement data (see metadata file) were collected using digital callipers and additional data transcribed from specimen labels.
- File identifier
- e53b2c4f-fc2e-47a9-b5b7-cc3a59f790ac XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:15:11
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
