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Title
Birds of the Western Hemisphere - Cotingidae (Polygon 4 of 4)
Date
2011-08-10 09:21:16 UTC
Extent
1996 - 2000
Abstract
1 Abstract: This data set contains distribution information for all birds occurring
in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of this project is to make this distributional
information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other landuse
decisions. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by NatureServe (then
known as the Association for Biodiversity Information), The Nature
Conservancy/Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International/CABS, World
Wildlife Fund-US, and in 2000, with the subsequent addition of Environment
Canada, governed the initial development and guidelines for sharing of these
data. The MOU expired in 2003, but NatureServe, the compiler of the data set,
continues to maintain the data largely in the spirit of the original MOU.
The ArcView shape files contain the known range of each species. Ranges may
be depicted as polygons where a species is widespread, as points where there
are isolated records, or both. Not all vagrant occurrences are depicted,
especially those in the US and Canada. The files are arranged in folders by
family. The file naming convention, designed to allow manipulation of the files in
Arc/Info, is as follows.
Habitat for birds and other organisms is disappearing quickly from the Earth's surface. Conservationists are in a race against time to protect remaining habitat to stem the loss of biodiversity. Critical to these conservation efforts is focusing on-the-ground actions where threatened species where they are found. To aid conservationists in determining where these species occur, a group of conservation organizations joined forces in 2000 to develop a digital library of the distributions of the birds and mammals of the Western Hemisphere. These organizations, NatureServe (known then as the Association for Biodiversity Information), Conservation International - Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program (known then as Wings of the Americas), and World Wildlife Fund - US, later joined by Environment Canada - WILDSPACE, wanted to make these maps easily accessible to conservation planners and other interested users. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding to govern work on the project and delegated NatureServe with the primary responsibility to compile the database. This compact disk presents one product of this collaboration-a digital map library of the distributions of the birds of the Western Hemisphere.
Coverage
Western Hemisphere. The project covers continental North, Central, and South America and associated islands, including all near shore islands in Canada and the United States, islands in the Bering Sea, and the U.Aleutian islands; the entire Caribbean; the Mexican islands of Guadalupe and the Revillagigedo archipelago; the Galapagos islands including Isla del Coco (Costa Rica); the Colombian Pacific islands of Malpelo and Gorgona; the Chilean islands of San Ambrosia, San Felix and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago; the Falkland Islands; and the Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas. This coverage excludes Greenland, the Hawaiian Islands, and mid-Atlantic islands such as Bermuda, Tristan da Cunha, and South Georgia.
Terrestrial Ranges only. Because the goal of the project is to produce a tool to aid on-the-ground conservation, the maps show terrestrial ranges only. Conservation of marine birds while at sea is dependent on management policies, so the geographic ranges of pelagic species is a less critical conservation issue. Also, pelagic ranges are poorly and unevenly known throughout the hemisphere,
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making a balanced coverage of these ranges difficult. We made a special attempt to map breeding localities of seabirds because these areas are typically in need of conservation measures.
Extant and Recently Extinct Species. Whenever data are available, the maps show ranges where species formerly occurred but are now extirpated. Similarly, we included recently extinct species if data were available.
Vagrants. For completeness, we attempted to map all species recorded from the project area. However, especially in North America, we made no attempt to show all locations where species have been recorded as vagrants.
Introduced Species. To the extent that existing data allowed us, we mapped current distributions of species that have been introduced and established in the project area. Distributions of all birds and especially introduced species are constantly changing, so data users should be aware that these maps reflect the situation at the time the data source was produced, not necessarily today's distribution.
Map Production
To produce the maps we used existing digital maps that were available to us (see Data Contributors) and digitized maps for all remaining species and portions of ranges. We digitized by eye from published maps in books and other compilations as well as hand-drawn maps on paper. In most cases we digitized at a 1:5,000,000 to 1:10,000,000 scale, although we used 1:3,000,000 for the Andes and Central America. After initial digitization, ornithologists reviewed the maps and we incorporated these corrections to the digital maps.
We coded all polygons and points by whether the species is still present or extinct in the location, and by the species' origin (permanent resident, breeder, non-breeder, passage migrant, introduced). The key to the codes, all technical information about the maps, and a list of references cited in the database are contained in the accompanying metadata file.
Data Contributors and Sources
The source for all South American ranges is Robert Ridgely's compilation of research maps for South American birds, many of which have been previously published (Ridgely and Tudor 1989, 1994). Tom Allnutt provided digitized drafts of several hundred of these maps. We also smoothed the 1/4 degree grid data provided by The Nature Conservancy for threatened Latin American species (Mehlman et al., 1999). Robert Ridgely also reviewed and updated the digitized maps for every species. For species of the Galapagos Islands, we
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supplemented the Ridgely maps with distribution information from the field guide by Castro and Phillips (1996). No published maps are available for Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, so we contracted James Zook, an active Costa Rican-based ornithologist, to draw these maps based on the literature and his field experience. Maps including Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras are primarily based on Howell and Webb (1995). Don McNicol provided digitized maps for all Canadian species that formed the basis for most North American maps. These maps were based primarily on the Peterson field guide series (Peterson 1980, 1990) and the Birds of North America series (Poole and Gill 1992). For the remaining species and migratory ranges of North American spcies, we used maps from Birds of North America where available and Sibley (2000). Caribbean data came from Raffaele et al. (1998) and Schreiber and Lee (Schreiber and Lee 2000). Overall, we cite 46 sources for the information in this database. The Ridgely data are based on thousands more references.
Use and Acknowledgement of the Data
This compilation of the digital library of bird distributions is copyrighted2003 by NatureServe, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor, Arlington Virginia 22209, U.S.All Rights Reserved. NatureServe grants to the public a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, translate, publish and use these data for noncommercial purposes.
All products produced on any media, including but not limited to publications, databases, theses, websites, and oral presentations should acknowledge the data contributors:
'Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.'
All scientific research that makes extensive use of the maps for South American species should offer co-authorship to Robert Ridgely (address below or via email at rridgely@earthlink.net). Similarly, projects that make extensive use of the Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and/or Panamanian data should offer co-authorship to James Zook (jrzook@racsa.co.cr). Please be sure to contact these scientists before putting their names on any document!
The proper citation for this CD is:
'Ridgely, S., Allnutt, Brooks, McNicol, Mehlman, Young, and Zook. 2003. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 1.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.'
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Please contact Bruce Young (bruce_young@natureserve.org) if you are interested in using this database or any of the data contained therein in a commercial product.
Software Compatibility
The shapefiles on this compact disk are compatible with ArcView 3.X software produced by the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. To purchase ArcView software, check the ESRI website (www.esri.com) for a distributor near you. Alternatively, you can download ArcExplorer, software that allows you to view but not modify the range maps, for free at http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html.
Errors and Updates
Although we feel we did the best job possible to produce an accurate database, some errors surely remain in the data. Our knowledge of bird distributions continues to improve, so some of these maps may be out of date by the time you see them. Please alert Bruce Young (bruce_young@natureserve.org) of any errors you detect in the data or of newly published information that would serve to update the maps. We will be constantly reviewing the scientific literature to keep abreast of taxonomic and distributional changes. Updated maps will be available for download at NatureServe's website (www.natureserve.org).
Disclaimer
All data and any other documents that are contained on this compact disk are provided 'as is' without warranty as to the currentness, completeness, or accuracy of any specific data. NatureServe hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to any documents provided on this compact disk, including but not limited to all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. NatureServe makes no representations about the suitability of the information contained on this compact disk. In no event shall NatureServe be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential damages, or for damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information contained in any documents provided on this compact disk, under any theory of liability used. NatureServe may update or make changes to the documents provided on this compact disk at any time without notice; however, NatureServe makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. Because the data in NatureServe's central databases are continually being updated, it is advisable to
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check NatureServe's website (www.natureserve.org) for updated information. The data provided is for planning, assessment, and informational purposes.
Acknowledgments
For their generous financial support, we thank Conservation International - Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, the Oracle Corporate Giving Program, and NatureServe. We are indebted to the GIS wizardry of Pilar Hernandez whose scripts allowed the project to finish this century and with a manageable number of errors. The Monteverde Institute kindly made their GIS facility available to us. Thanks to Margaret Buck for helping us set up the digitizing lab in Monteverde, Costa Rica. We thank Maria Allen, John Cooley, Alberto Guindon, Jose Luiz Isurza, Carmela Landeo, Missy Martin, Juan Ali Ramirez, and Allen Suarez for tirelessly digitizing endless folders of maps. We are indebted to Jamie Stewart for generously setting up our FTP server at the Academy of Natural Sciences, printing all of the draft South American maps, and providing database advice. Finally, thanks to Larry Master for believing in this project and supporting it for the duration.
Literature Cited
Castro, and Phillips. 1996. A guide to the birds of the Galapagos Islands. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Howell, S.N.G., and Webb. 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Mehlman, D., Roca, Smith, Brooks, and Limp. 1999. Conservation Priority Setting for Birds in Latin America. CD-ROThe Nature Conservancy, Arlington.
Peterson, R.1980. A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Peterson, R.1990. A Field Guide to Western Birds. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Poole, and Gill. 1992--. The Birds of North America Series. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D.C.
Raffaele, H., Wiley, Garrido, Keith, and Raffaele. 1998. A guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
Ridgely, R.S., and Tudor. 1989. The Birds of South America, Volume 1: the Oscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Ridgely, R.S., and Tudor. 1994. The Birds of South America, Volume 2: the Suboscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Schreiber, and Lee. 2000. Status and conservation of West Indian Seabirds. Society of Caribbean Ornithology Special Publication 1, Ruston, Louisiana, USA.
Sibley, 2000. The Sibley guide to birds. Alfred Knopf, New York.
Data Attributes
17 Number of Items in Attribute Table: 13
18 Names of Attributes:
* Shape - Point or Polygon
* English Name
* Scientific Name [genus + species (+subspecies)]
* Authority [name + year; in parentheses if genus has changed]
* Family
* Presence - Is/was it there (Codes are listed below)
* Origin - How/why is it there (Codes are listed below)
* Compiler [Name + date]
* Scale of source map
* Taxonomic comments
* Distribution comments
* References [authors name and publication date]
* Reviewers [names + dates]
19 Codes:
Presence
1 - Extant
2 - Possibly present
3 - Probably extinct/Historically present but no recent records
4 - Extinct
5 - Extirpated purposely - (applies to introduced species only)
6 - Occurs on indicated island chain, but not necessarily on every island in the
chain
7 - Subfossil/fossil
Origin
1 - Native (year round)
2 - Native (breeding seasons only)
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3 - Native (nonbreeding seasons only)
4 - Native (as a passage migrant or wanderer)
5 - Native (seasonal permanence uncertain)
6 - Introduced (Alien) - [anthropogenically since 1600]
7 - Either introduced or native
8 - Reintroduced
9 - Either reintroduced or introduced
10 - Vagrant (an unusual record where a species does not regularly occur or
migrate; only applicable to points)
11 - Unknown
Note: This dataset may consist of several shapefiles. These files are numbered in the form of 'x of y' which means in the title it may say:
Birds of the Western Hemisphere - Accipitridae 2 of 5. This means that you are viewing shapefile 2 of 5 shapefiles.
(source: http://natureserve.org/getData/index.jsp)
in the Western Hemisphere. The goal of this project is to make this distributional
information freely available to the public to inform conservation and other landuse
decisions. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by NatureServe (then
known as the Association for Biodiversity Information), The Nature
Conservancy/Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International/CABS, World
Wildlife Fund-US, and in 2000, with the subsequent addition of Environment
Canada, governed the initial development and guidelines for sharing of these
data. The MOU expired in 2003, but NatureServe, the compiler of the data set,
continues to maintain the data largely in the spirit of the original MOU.
The ArcView shape files contain the known range of each species. Ranges may
be depicted as polygons where a species is widespread, as points where there
are isolated records, or both. Not all vagrant occurrences are depicted,
especially those in the US and Canada. The files are arranged in folders by
family. The file naming convention, designed to allow manipulation of the files in
Arc/Info, is as follows.
Habitat for birds and other organisms is disappearing quickly from the Earth's surface. Conservationists are in a race against time to protect remaining habitat to stem the loss of biodiversity. Critical to these conservation efforts is focusing on-the-ground actions where threatened species where they are found. To aid conservationists in determining where these species occur, a group of conservation organizations joined forces in 2000 to develop a digital library of the distributions of the birds and mammals of the Western Hemisphere. These organizations, NatureServe (known then as the Association for Biodiversity Information), Conservation International - Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program (known then as Wings of the Americas), and World Wildlife Fund - US, later joined by Environment Canada - WILDSPACE, wanted to make these maps easily accessible to conservation planners and other interested users. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding to govern work on the project and delegated NatureServe with the primary responsibility to compile the database. This compact disk presents one product of this collaboration-a digital map library of the distributions of the birds of the Western Hemisphere.
Coverage
Western Hemisphere. The project covers continental North, Central, and South America and associated islands, including all near shore islands in Canada and the United States, islands in the Bering Sea, and the U.Aleutian islands; the entire Caribbean; the Mexican islands of Guadalupe and the Revillagigedo archipelago; the Galapagos islands including Isla del Coco (Costa Rica); the Colombian Pacific islands of Malpelo and Gorgona; the Chilean islands of San Ambrosia, San Felix and the Juan Fernandez Archipelago; the Falkland Islands; and the Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas. This coverage excludes Greenland, the Hawaiian Islands, and mid-Atlantic islands such as Bermuda, Tristan da Cunha, and South Georgia.
Terrestrial Ranges only. Because the goal of the project is to produce a tool to aid on-the-ground conservation, the maps show terrestrial ranges only. Conservation of marine birds while at sea is dependent on management policies, so the geographic ranges of pelagic species is a less critical conservation issue. Also, pelagic ranges are poorly and unevenly known throughout the hemisphere,
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making a balanced coverage of these ranges difficult. We made a special attempt to map breeding localities of seabirds because these areas are typically in need of conservation measures.
Extant and Recently Extinct Species. Whenever data are available, the maps show ranges where species formerly occurred but are now extirpated. Similarly, we included recently extinct species if data were available.
Vagrants. For completeness, we attempted to map all species recorded from the project area. However, especially in North America, we made no attempt to show all locations where species have been recorded as vagrants.
Introduced Species. To the extent that existing data allowed us, we mapped current distributions of species that have been introduced and established in the project area. Distributions of all birds and especially introduced species are constantly changing, so data users should be aware that these maps reflect the situation at the time the data source was produced, not necessarily today's distribution.
Map Production
To produce the maps we used existing digital maps that were available to us (see Data Contributors) and digitized maps for all remaining species and portions of ranges. We digitized by eye from published maps in books and other compilations as well as hand-drawn maps on paper. In most cases we digitized at a 1:5,000,000 to 1:10,000,000 scale, although we used 1:3,000,000 for the Andes and Central America. After initial digitization, ornithologists reviewed the maps and we incorporated these corrections to the digital maps.
We coded all polygons and points by whether the species is still present or extinct in the location, and by the species' origin (permanent resident, breeder, non-breeder, passage migrant, introduced). The key to the codes, all technical information about the maps, and a list of references cited in the database are contained in the accompanying metadata file.
Data Contributors and Sources
The source for all South American ranges is Robert Ridgely's compilation of research maps for South American birds, many of which have been previously published (Ridgely and Tudor 1989, 1994). Tom Allnutt provided digitized drafts of several hundred of these maps. We also smoothed the 1/4 degree grid data provided by The Nature Conservancy for threatened Latin American species (Mehlman et al., 1999). Robert Ridgely also reviewed and updated the digitized maps for every species. For species of the Galapagos Islands, we
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supplemented the Ridgely maps with distribution information from the field guide by Castro and Phillips (1996). No published maps are available for Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, so we contracted James Zook, an active Costa Rican-based ornithologist, to draw these maps based on the literature and his field experience. Maps including Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras are primarily based on Howell and Webb (1995). Don McNicol provided digitized maps for all Canadian species that formed the basis for most North American maps. These maps were based primarily on the Peterson field guide series (Peterson 1980, 1990) and the Birds of North America series (Poole and Gill 1992). For the remaining species and migratory ranges of North American spcies, we used maps from Birds of North America where available and Sibley (2000). Caribbean data came from Raffaele et al. (1998) and Schreiber and Lee (Schreiber and Lee 2000). Overall, we cite 46 sources for the information in this database. The Ridgely data are based on thousands more references.
Use and Acknowledgement of the Data
This compilation of the digital library of bird distributions is copyrighted2003 by NatureServe, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor, Arlington Virginia 22209, U.S.All Rights Reserved. NatureServe grants to the public a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, translate, publish and use these data for noncommercial purposes.
All products produced on any media, including but not limited to publications, databases, theses, websites, and oral presentations should acknowledge the data contributors:
'Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.'
All scientific research that makes extensive use of the maps for South American species should offer co-authorship to Robert Ridgely (address below or via email at rridgely@earthlink.net). Similarly, projects that make extensive use of the Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, and/or Panamanian data should offer co-authorship to James Zook (jrzook@racsa.co.cr). Please be sure to contact these scientists before putting their names on any document!
The proper citation for this CD is:
'Ridgely, S., Allnutt, Brooks, McNicol, Mehlman, Young, and Zook. 2003. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 1.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.'
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Please contact Bruce Young (bruce_young@natureserve.org) if you are interested in using this database or any of the data contained therein in a commercial product.
Software Compatibility
The shapefiles on this compact disk are compatible with ArcView 3.X software produced by the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. To purchase ArcView software, check the ESRI website (www.esri.com) for a distributor near you. Alternatively, you can download ArcExplorer, software that allows you to view but not modify the range maps, for free at http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html.
Errors and Updates
Although we feel we did the best job possible to produce an accurate database, some errors surely remain in the data. Our knowledge of bird distributions continues to improve, so some of these maps may be out of date by the time you see them. Please alert Bruce Young (bruce_young@natureserve.org) of any errors you detect in the data or of newly published information that would serve to update the maps. We will be constantly reviewing the scientific literature to keep abreast of taxonomic and distributional changes. Updated maps will be available for download at NatureServe's website (www.natureserve.org).
Disclaimer
All data and any other documents that are contained on this compact disk are provided 'as is' without warranty as to the currentness, completeness, or accuracy of any specific data. NatureServe hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to any documents provided on this compact disk, including but not limited to all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. NatureServe makes no representations about the suitability of the information contained on this compact disk. In no event shall NatureServe be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential damages, or for damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information contained in any documents provided on this compact disk, under any theory of liability used. NatureServe may update or make changes to the documents provided on this compact disk at any time without notice; however, NatureServe makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. Because the data in NatureServe's central databases are continually being updated, it is advisable to
4
check NatureServe's website (www.natureserve.org) for updated information. The data provided is for planning, assessment, and informational purposes.
Acknowledgments
For their generous financial support, we thank Conservation International - Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, the Oracle Corporate Giving Program, and NatureServe. We are indebted to the GIS wizardry of Pilar Hernandez whose scripts allowed the project to finish this century and with a manageable number of errors. The Monteverde Institute kindly made their GIS facility available to us. Thanks to Margaret Buck for helping us set up the digitizing lab in Monteverde, Costa Rica. We thank Maria Allen, John Cooley, Alberto Guindon, Jose Luiz Isurza, Carmela Landeo, Missy Martin, Juan Ali Ramirez, and Allen Suarez for tirelessly digitizing endless folders of maps. We are indebted to Jamie Stewart for generously setting up our FTP server at the Academy of Natural Sciences, printing all of the draft South American maps, and providing database advice. Finally, thanks to Larry Master for believing in this project and supporting it for the duration.
Literature Cited
Castro, and Phillips. 1996. A guide to the birds of the Galapagos Islands. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Howell, S.N.G., and Webb. 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Mehlman, D., Roca, Smith, Brooks, and Limp. 1999. Conservation Priority Setting for Birds in Latin America. CD-ROThe Nature Conservancy, Arlington.
Peterson, R.1980. A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Peterson, R.1990. A Field Guide to Western Birds. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Poole, and Gill. 1992--. The Birds of North America Series. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D.C.
Raffaele, H., Wiley, Garrido, Keith, and Raffaele. 1998. A guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
Ridgely, R.S., and Tudor. 1989. The Birds of South America, Volume 1: the Oscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Ridgely, R.S., and Tudor. 1994. The Birds of South America, Volume 2: the Suboscine Passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Schreiber, and Lee. 2000. Status and conservation of West Indian Seabirds. Society of Caribbean Ornithology Special Publication 1, Ruston, Louisiana, USA.
Sibley, 2000. The Sibley guide to birds. Alfred Knopf, New York.
Data Attributes
17 Number of Items in Attribute Table: 13
18 Names of Attributes:
* Shape - Point or Polygon
* English Name
* Scientific Name [genus + species (+subspecies)]
* Authority [name + year; in parentheses if genus has changed]
* Family
* Presence - Is/was it there (Codes are listed below)
* Origin - How/why is it there (Codes are listed below)
* Compiler [Name + date]
* Scale of source map
* Taxonomic comments
* Distribution comments
* References [authors name and publication date]
* Reviewers [names + dates]
19 Codes:
Presence
1 - Extant
2 - Possibly present
3 - Probably extinct/Historically present but no recent records
4 - Extinct
5 - Extirpated purposely - (applies to introduced species only)
6 - Occurs on indicated island chain, but not necessarily on every island in the
chain
7 - Subfossil/fossil
Origin
1 - Native (year round)
2 - Native (breeding seasons only)
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3 - Native (nonbreeding seasons only)
4 - Native (as a passage migrant or wanderer)
5 - Native (seasonal permanence uncertain)
6 - Introduced (Alien) - [anthropogenically since 1600]
7 - Either introduced or native
8 - Reintroduced
9 - Either reintroduced or introduced
10 - Vagrant (an unusual record where a species does not regularly occur or
migrate; only applicable to points)
11 - Unknown
Note: This dataset may consist of several shapefiles. These files are numbered in the form of 'x of y' which means in the title it may say:
Birds of the Western Hemisphere - Accipitridae 2 of 5. This means that you are viewing shapefile 2 of 5 shapefiles.
(source: http://natureserve.org/getData/index.jsp)
Geographic bounding box
East Bound Longitude
-34.7925109863281
West Bound Longitude
-79.1374130249023
North Bound Latitude
8.65144443511963
South Bound Latitude
-23.3598556518555
Point of contact
Individual name
Lauren Crooks
Email
lauren.crooks@gov.yk.ca
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Reviews