A GIS dataset of bird nests mapped in the Windmill Islands by Frederique Olivier and Drew Lee during the 2002-2003 season

Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of snow petrels at the regional scale. This dataset contains locations of bird nests, mostly snow petrels, mapped in the Windmill Islands during the 2002-2003 season. Location of nests were recorded with handheld GPS receivers connected to a pocket PC and stored as a shapefile using Arcpad (ESRI software). Descriptive information relating to each bird nest was recorded and a detailed description of data fields is provided in the detailed description of the shapefiles.


Two observers conducted the surveys using distinct methodologies, Frederique Olivier (FO) and Drew Lee (DL). Three separate nest location files (ArcView point shapefiles) were produced and correspond to each of the survey methodologies used. Methodology 1 was the use of 200*200 m grid squares in which exhaustive searches were conducted (FO). Methodology 2 was the use of 2 transects within each the 200*200 m grid squares; methodology 3 was the use of 4 small quadrats (ca 25 m) located within the 200*200m grid squares (DL). Nests mapped in a non-systematic manner (not following a specific methodology) are clearly identified within each dataset. Datasets were kept separate due to the uncertainties caused by GPS errors (the same nest may have different locations due to GPS error).


Three separate shapefiles describe survey methodologies:

- one polygon shapefile locates the 200*200 grid sites searched systematically (FO)

- one polygon shapefile locates the small quadrats (DL)

- one line shapefile locates line transects (DL)


Spatial characteristics, date of survey, search effort, number of nests found and other parameters are recorded for the grid sites, transect and quadrats.


See the word document in the file download for more information.


This work has been completed as part of ASAC project 1219 (ASAC_1219).


The fields in this dataset are:


Species

Activity

Type

Entrances

Slope

Remnants

Latitude

Longitude

Date

Snow

Eggchick

Cavitysize

Cavitydepth

Distnn

Substrate

Comments

SitedotID

Aspect

Firstfred

Systematic/Edge/Incidental

RecordCode


The full dataset, including a word document providing further information about the dataset, is publicly available for download from the provided URL.


Also available for download from another URL is polygon data representing flying bird nesting areas. The polygon data was derived from the flying bird nest locations by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for displaying on maps.

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Identification info

Alternate title
A GIS dataset of bird nests mapped in the Windmill Islands by Frederique Olivier and Drew Lee during the 2002-2003 season
Date (Publication)
2006-05-30
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/597fdcfb8bc50

Originator

Olivier, F., Lee, D. and Woehler, E.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Division

Principal investigator

OLIVIER, FREDERIQUE
Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

LEE, DREW
DPIWE
Hobart
Tasmania
7000
Australia

Principal investigator

WOEHLER, ERIC
Birds Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Collaborator

OLIVIER, FREDERIQUE
Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/BIRDSCASEY0203

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
10
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2002-11-12 2003-02-16
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
Keywords
  • ACTIVITY
  • ANTARCTICA
  • ASPECT
  • CAVITYDEPTH
  • CAPE PETREL
  • CAVITYSIZE
  • COMMENTS
  • CHICK
  • DAPTION CAPENSE
  • EGG
  • DATE
  • DISTNN
  • ENTRANCES
  • LATITUDE
  • LONGITUDE
  • MAPPING
  • NEST
  • OCEANITE OCEANICUS
  • PAGODROMA NIVEA
  • RECORD
  • REMNANTS
  • SITE
  • SLOPE
  • SNOW
  • SNOW PETREL
  • SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
  • SPECIES
  • SUBSTRATE
  • TYPE
  • WILSON'S STORM PETREL
  • WINDMILL ISLANDS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • GPS > Global Positioning System
  • GPS RECEIVERS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD SURVEYS
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
  • OBIS/SCAR-MARBIN
  • AMD/SCAR-MARBIN
  • ANTABIF
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
The full dataset, including a word document providing further information about the dataset, is publicly available for download from the provided URL. Also available for download from another URL is polygon data representing flying bird nesting areas. The polygon data was derived from the flying bird nest locations by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for displaying on maps.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license

Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=BIRDSCASEY0203 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2006-05-30T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
382
Distribution format
  • shapefiles, ArcView 3.2, Word

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download point for the data (referenced by the provided Dataset DOI)

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 1219

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Download polygon data representing colonies, derived from the point data for displaying on maps

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Data were acquired with a Garmin 26 GPS receiver, the accuracy of which is better than an average handheld GPS model, such as the Garmin 12. In order not to overestimate the quality of the data, it is sensible to assume that nest locations were acquired with an uncertainty between 5 and 10 m.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2008-11-18 - record modified by Dave Connell after the download file was edited for content (previously it had been a copy of the HABITATCASEY0203 dataset, and this was corrected so the two datasets are now different). 2009-02-03 - record modified by Bruno Danis to add SCAR-MarBIN nodes. 2012-07-13 - David Smith added a Related URL and edited Access Constraints. 2013-11-12 - David Smith edited the Title after consultation with Frederique Olivier. 2017-08-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2018-06-08 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2019-04-04 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/BIRDSCASEY0203

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

OLIVIER, FREDERIQUE
Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
c54a3796-6402-447b-9492-a54af85b9a94

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-04-04T12:22:53

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/BIRDSCASEY0203

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2003-06-23T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-04-04

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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