Waterbird census in Spain

Blas Molina1, Blas Molina2, Katia Cezón3

1 SEO/BirdLife, Melquiades Biencinto, 34, 28053, Madrid; 2 SEO/BirdLife, Melquiades Biencinto, 34, 28053, Madrid, Spain; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Blas Molina (acuaticas@seo.org), Blas Molina (acuaticas@seo.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

SEO/BirdLife, año. Censos de aves acuáticas compilados por SEO/BirdLife. Madrid.
SEO/BirdLife, year. waterbird census compiled byaSEO/BirdLife. Madrid. Spain. http://doi.org/10.15470/svos5t

Abstract

Censos de aves acuáticas invernantes en los humedales de España desde 1965.
Winter waterbird census in all wetlands of Spain since 1965.

SEO/BirdLife ha trabajado en una nueva aplicación que funciona vía internet, ampliando el número de consultas (nuevas tablas, gráficas, mapas, etc.), creando módulos de introducción de datos, petición de consultas, envío de noticias, etc. www.acuaticas.org.
La aplicación on line que permite la consulta de cerca de 30.000 censos de más de 1.600 humedales realizados entre 1965 y 2012.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Purpose: Quantification of the populations of wintering waterfowl in Spain and evolution of their populations. Knowledge base to work on preservation and conservation of Spanish wetlands and waterbird species.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=seo-acuaticas

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: There are included data of 293 species.
Waterbird group:Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Podicipediformes, Procellariformes, Procellariiformes.
Alcedinidae, Alcidae, Anatidae, Ardeidae, Burhinidae, Charadriidae, Ciconiidae, Diomedeidae, Embericidae, Fregatidae, Gaviidae, Gruidae, Haematopodidae, Hydrobatidae, Laridae, Pandionidae, Pelecanidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Phoenicopteridae, Podicipedidae,  Procellariidae, Rallidae, Recurvirostridae, Scolopacidae, Stercorariidae, Sternidae, Strigidae, Sulidae, Sylviidae, Threskiornithidae y Turnicidae.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Aves

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Spain with Balearic and Canary Island
Coordinates: 34°11'24''N and 44°56'24''N Latitude; 10°41'60''W and 4°1'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1966 - March 31, 2012

Methods

Method step description: Species identification
Quantification of species
Computerization of data
Study extent description: Prospection of each wetland with binoculars and telescope in the first month of each year
Sampling description: Direct observation with binoculars and telescope
Quality control description: Regional coordinators of the census

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Waterbird census in Spain
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=seo-acuaticas
Publication date of data: 2018-11-30
Language: Spanish
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: Spanish
Date of metadata creation: 2016-09-16
Hierarchy level: Dataset