A 19th Century Stormwrecked Black-Capped Petrel From Vermont Offers Insight Into Historical Vagrancy Processes.

ABSTRACT: Specimens stored within museum collections are increasingly leveraged to reconstruct historical baselines to both decipher the legacies of past anthropogenic impacts and anticipate the consequences of future climate change on species distributions. However, the research significance of such collections can be severely constrained based on their curation histories, resulting in data being forgotten, if not lost entirely. In this Nature Note, we report the unexpected presence of a mislabeled Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) specimen in the historical Middlebury College Vertebrate Natural History collection, potentially representing the rediscovery of a lost specimen reported from Vermont following the 1893 New York City Hurricane. We conducted archival research at multiple in

SUBMITTER: Patrick OW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795174 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature