Lazarus Archive · LZ-21285

Bird ringing records, Northwest, 1986–1996

Northwest Ornithological Society, 1986–1996. Research data for Unix workstations.

Description

Records of 177 thousand birds ringed and recaptured by volunteers across the Northwest.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cce5295c95ef1126be25dbb39cc27455bce3ebe133906582240647b63476ac51
Last verified
Oct 11, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Northwest Ornithological Society, Bird ringing records, Northwest, 1986–1996 (1986–1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21285.

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