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

Created 12/12/2015

Updated 13/11/2024

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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 200200 m grid squares in which exhaustive searches were conducted (FO). Methodology 2 was the use of 2 transects within each the 200200 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

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Additional Info

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Title A GIS dataset of bird nests mapped in the Windmill Islands by Frederique Olivier and Drew Lee during the 2002-2003 season
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/a9798ec9-93a5-4a33-9d6f-f7c7d11df26d
Contact Point
Australian Antarctic Division
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 12/11/2002 - 16/02/2003
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[110.3, -66.5], [110.75, -66.5], [110.75, -66.2333], [110.3, -66.2333], [110.3, -66.5]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "A GIS dataset of bird nests mapped in the Windmill Islands by Frederique Olivier and Drew Lee during the 2002-2003 season". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/aad-birdscasey0203

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