Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken)

Dataset type

This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.

Description

Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken) is a joint subprogramme (gemensamt delprogram) within the regional environmental monitoring in Sweden. The programme is run by the four County Administrative Boards (Länsstyrelsen) of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland and Gävleborg. The programme was developed in 2009-2010, and its purpose is to register the presence and population sizes of breeding bird species characteristic of coastal and archipelagic areas in the Gulf of Bothnia, thus enabling changes of these to be monitored. The work is carried out in collaboration with, and is supported by, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The surveys are carried out by employees at the County Administrative Boards as well as hired consultants and experienced ornithologists. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.

Geographic Description

All data is collected along the coastline of the four counties of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland and Gävleborg on the Swedish side of the Gulf of Bothnia.

Purpose

Regional environmental monitoring of coastal breeding birds.

Data quality

Confidence in the data is good. All data are checked and validated by the surveyors.

Methods

See Sampling description.

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data.

Citation

Nilsson P, Backe S, Owusu-Ansah E, Lundmark B, Jönsson A (2024). Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken). Version 1.9. Department of Biology, Lund University. Samplingevent dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=lu_kbv&v=1.9

Rights

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.

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2024-08-27 06:54:10.0