Description
This is the dataset of a large-scale survey of North American birds. It is a roadside survey, primarily covering the continental United States and southern Canada, although survey routes have recently been initiated in Alaska and northern Mexico. The BBS was started in 1966, and the over 3,500 routes are surveyed in June by experienced birders. The primary objective of the BBS has been the estimation of population change for songbirds. However, the data have many potential uses, and investigators have used the data to address a variety of research and management objectives.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. 2015. North American Breeding Bird Survey Raw Dataset.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. 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.
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Keywords
Metadata; breeding birds; survey; transect; aves; birds
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Geographic Coverage
The land mass for North America except Mexico and the Northern part of Canada. It is possible small islands are not covered by this grid. The bounding box is approximate. West_Bounding_Coordinate: -135.41 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -59.8 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 57.71 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.35
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [24.35, -135.41], North East [57.71, -59.8] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Birds that breed in North America.
| Class | Aves (birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1966 - present |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | North American Breeding Bird Survey - 1966-2013 |
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| Funding | USGS, USFWS |
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Bibliographic Citations
- These publications describe the methodology used to collect this data: Sauer, J. R., and S. Droege, editors. 1990. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Geissler, P. H., and J. R. Sauer. 1990. Topics in route regression analysis. Pgs 54‑57 in J. R. Sauer and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Sauer, J. R., and P. H. Geissler. 1990. Annual indices from route regression analyses. Pgs 58‑62 in J. R. Sauer and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Sauer, J. R., R. J. Barker, and P.H. Geissler. 1994. Statistical aspects of modeling population change from population size data. Pages 451‑466 in R. J. Kendall and T. E. Lacher, Jr., eds., Wildlife toxicology and population modeling: integrated studies of agroecosystems, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl. Sauer, J. R., Peterjohn, B. G., and Link, W. A. 1994. Observer differences in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 111:50‑62. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1994. Estimating equations estimates of trends. Bird Populations 2:23‑32. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1995. Estimation of empirical mixing distributions in summary analyses. Biometrics 51:810‑821. Sauer, J. R., G. W. Pendleton, and S. Orsillo. 1995. Mapping of bird distributions from point count surveys. Pages 151‑160 in C. J. Ralph, J. R. Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW‑GTR‑149. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1996. Extremes in ecology: avoiding the misleading effects of sampling variation in summary analyses. Ecology 77:1633-1640. Kendall, W. L., B. G. Peterjohn, and J. R. Sauer. 1996. First-time observer effects in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 113:823-829. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997. New Approaches to the Analysis of Population Trends in Land Birds" A Comment on Statistical Methods. Ecology 78:2632-2634. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997. Estimation of population trajectories from count data. Biometrics 53:63-72. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer 1998. Estimating population change from count data: application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Ecological Applications 8:258‑268. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer 2002. A hierarchical model of population change with application to Cerulean Warblers. Ecology 83:2832. Sauer, J. R., J. E. Fallon, and R. Johnson 2003. Use of North American Breeding Bird Survey data to estimate population change for bird conservation regions. J. Wildlife Management 67:372&. http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/BBS_Results_and_Analysis_2013.html
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs_pwrc_north_american_breeding_bird_survey |
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