Description
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
USGS. 2015. Colonial Waterbirds Partnership.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Metadata; seabirds; auks; albatrosses; storm-petrels; frigate birds; coastal waterbirds; gulls; terns; pelicans; cormorants; wading birds; herons; ibises; storks; marshbirds; loons; grebes; bitterns; rails; cranes
Contacts
- Originator
- Metadata Provider
- Point Of Contact
- Principal Investigator
Geographic Coverage
The bounding box is approximate; occurrences on Aleutian Islands make it virtually all of the northern hemisphere.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [25.35, -179], North East [70, 179] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Family | Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Phaethontidae, Sulidae, Pelecanidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Threskiornithidae, Ciconiidae, Phoenicopteridae, Rallidae, Aramidae, Gruidae, Laridae, Alcidae, Anhingidae |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1885 - present |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - Colonial Waterbirds |
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| Funding | USGS and USFWS |
| Study Area Description | As described in the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan at http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Sampling Methods
See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF
| Study Extent | See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF |
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Method step description:
- See: http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/pubs/PSGManual03.PDF
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Colonial Waterbirds |
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| Collection Identifier | https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/cwb/ |
| Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
Bibliographic Citations
- Parsons, Katharine and Corey Wisneski. 2000. Annotated Bibliography for North American Colonial Waterbird Conservation. Manomet Center for the Conservation Sciences, Manomet, Massachusetts. http://www.waterbirdconservation.org/plan/rpt-annotatedbibliography.pdf
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Described in the Basic Metadata section. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs_pwrc_us_colonial_waterbirds |