https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs_pwrc_us_colonial_waterbirds Shannon Beliew USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Biologist

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+1 434-924-3207 r_michael_erwin@usgs.gov principalInvestigator 2016-08-31 eng This is an ongoing data product of a continental network of collaborators who agree to and implement comparable population monitoring techniques and contribute to a centrally managed waterbird database. This continent-wide waterbird monitoring partnership coordinated by the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and the USFWS Division of Migratory Bird Management. This dataset is made possible by the participation of monitoring partners throughout the Americas, who conduct surveys of waterbirds and voluntarily contribute their data to this centralized location. It contains data from the coastal surveys conducted in the mid 1990s from Maine to Georgia, funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, in addition to information published in a number of colonial waterbird atlases in the United States and Canada as long ago as 1895. In addition, data from the Cornell Waterbird Register and some of the US Fish and Wildlife Service-sponsored Great Lakes waterbird surveys have also been captured. Metadata GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml seabirds auks albatrosses storm-petrels frigate birds coastal waterbirds gulls terns pelicans cormorants wading birds herons ibises storks marshbirds loons grebes bitterns rails cranes USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/cwb/ The bounding box is approximate; occurrences on Aleutian Islands make it virtually all of the northern hemisphere. -179 179 70 25.35 family Gaviidae family Podicipedidae family Diomedeidae family Procellariidae family Hydrobatidae family Phaethontidae family Sulidae family Pelecanidae family Phalacrocoracidae family Fregatidae family Ardeidae family Threskiornithidae family Ciconiidae family Phoenicopteridae family Rallidae family Aramidae family Gruidae family Laridae family Alcidae family Anhingidae Described in the Basic Metadata section. unkown Bruce Peterjohn USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Wildlife Biologist

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+1 (301) 497-5646 bpeterjohn@usgs.gov https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/staff/profiles/documents/peterjohn.htm See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF Bruce Peterjohn pointOfContact USGS and USFWS As described in the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan at http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/. 2015-03-18T08:14:05.371+00:00 dataset USGS. 2015. Colonial Waterbirds Partnership. Parsons, Katharine and Corey Wisneski. 2000. Annotated Bibliography for North American Colonial Waterbird Conservation. Manomet Center for the Conservation Sciences, Manomet, Massachusetts. https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/logo.do?r=usgs_pwrc_us_colonial_waterbirds not applicable https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/cwb/ Colonial Waterbirds 1885 - present