Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

utf8

Dataset Reference Date ()

2020-06-04

Dataset Reference Date ()

2016-06-30

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360

Other citation details

Siriwardena, G.M., Taylor, R.M., Norfolk, D., Jones, K., Alison, J., Astbury, S., Burden, A., Emmett, B.A., Garbutt, A. , Henrys, P., Owen, A., Smart, S.M., Sharps, K., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Bird counts from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360

Maintenance and update frequency

notPlanned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

• Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keywords

• Environmental survey
• Biodiversity
• Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
• GMEP
• agri-environment scheme
• birds
• Wales

Limitations on Public Access

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Other constraints

no limitations

Use constraints

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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All use of the data (or any part of it) must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of the source in the following format:

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© Crown copyright: Welsh Government licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru Mae’r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0

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For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Siriwardena, G.M., Taylor, R.M., Norfolk, D., Jones, K., Alison, J., Astbury, S., Burden, A., Emmett, B.A., Garbutt, A. , Henrys, P., Owen, A., Smart, S.M., Sharps, K., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Bird counts from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360

Spatial representation type

textTable

Distance

10000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

• Biota

Begin date

2013-03-04

End date

2016-06-30

 

Code

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Distribution Information

Data format

• Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

 

Quality Scope

dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The surveys consisted of four (reduced to three from 2015-16 onwards) visits to each square by trained, professional surveyors using standardised protocols. Surveys were equally spaced through mid-March to mid-July. On each visit, the surveyor walked a route that passed within 50m of all parts of the survey square to which access had been secured, beginning at around 06:00 and taking up to five hours. Surveys were not conducted in conditions known to affect the detection of birds, i.e. strong winds and more than light rain. The survey route was started in different places on each visit, so that all areas were visited at least once before 08:00. All birds seen or heard were recorded on high-resolution field maps using standard BTO activity codes. Recording and standardizing route coverage (where surveyors actually walked) was important both between visits and to ensure comparable repeat coverage when squares are revisited.

Data were recorded on standard forms and field maps, which were collated in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Wales office in Bangor and sent to the BTO head office for digital inputting, after being copied physically and electronically in Bangor. Data were then digitized using ArcMap (versions up to v10.5). The process included checking of uncertain counts, species codes and identifications, for which the digitizer checked the data with the surveyor if necessary, before making a judgement on likely record accuracy. Additional checks were intrinsic to subsequent data processing before being loaded into a final database at UK CEH.

To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.

Metadata

File identifier

31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

Resource type

dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Metadata Date

2020-06-12T15:15:32

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3