Description
About this project Monitoring Eastern Bluebirds and other cavity-nesting birds at the nest boxes around Winnebago County Forest Preserves. Project goal To track which habitats which species prefer and how populations and habits change over time. What participants do Monitoring nest boxes weekly and recording information about what is inside. Monitors are trained in what to look for in the nest boxes placed in around 20 different forest preserves in Winnebago County. We record data on date, temperature, the type of box, what habitat it is in, what species is nesting, how many eggs, how many young, if adults are seen or heard, mortalities, and how many birds fledge. We also are vigilant about removing the nests, eggs, and young of any invasive species, mainly House Sparrows.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 6,800 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 05d01300-382d-4a43-9102-b2835148bc39. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Rockford, Illinois, United States
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.167, -89.379], North East [42.469, -88.947] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Species | Tachycineta bicolor |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1970-01-01 / 2021-09-21 |
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Project Data
Anecdata is a free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data. How Anecdata works: Project managers create projects, creating datasheets that participants fill out to share their observations. Participants join projects and use the Anecdata website or mobile app to share their observations with the project. Project data is now available for anyone to view and download!
| Title | Anecdata.org |
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| Identifier | Anecdata.org |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
What participants do Monitoring nest boxes weekly and recording information about what is inside.
| Study Extent | About this project Monitoring Eastern Bluebirds and other cavity-nesting birds at the nest boxes around Winnebago County Forest Preserves. Project goal To track which habitats which species prefer and how populations and habits change over time. |
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Method step description:
- Monitors are trained in what to look for in the nest boxes placed in around 20 different forest preserves in Winnebago County. We record data on date, temperature, the type of box, what habitat it is in, what species is nesting, how many eggs, how many young, if adults are seen or heard, mortalities, and how many birds fledge. We also are vigilant about removing the nests, eggs, and young of any invasive species, mainly House Sparrows.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=bluebird |
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