Description
These data were collected by the Forest Department of Uganda under the ‘Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project’ (No. 6100.37.42.015) and the project of ‘Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity’ (UNO/RAF/006/GEF). These data were collected from 1993 to1995 and published in a series of reports edited by Howard and Davenport (1996).
The data have been mobilized by the staff of the A Rocha Uganda and A Rocha International under the project "Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes" funded by GBIF's BID programme, and coordinated by A Rocha Kenya. The mobilised data consists of observation records of birds from Igwe-Luvunya forest reserve. The data are based on observation records collected between May,1993 and March,1995.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 30 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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:
Barahukwa A, Mbiro A, Tumwesigye A, Kaweesa S, Lindsell J, A. Matthews R, Dickinson C, Baltzer M, Davenport T, Howard P (2022): Checklist of Birds in Igwe-Luvunya forest reserve, Uganda. v1.35. A Rocha Uganda. Dataset/Checklist. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=checklistofbirdsofigweluvunyaforestreserve&v=1.35
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is A Rocha Uganda. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3ef9b1f4-9362-41a2-849b-58c764527d91. A Rocha Uganda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.
Keywords
Checklist; Uganda; Birds; Forest Reserves; Derivedfromoccurrence
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Geographic Coverage
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| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The data were collected from Igwe-Luvunya forest reserve. Based on observation records.
| Species | Strix woodfordii (Smith, 1834) (African Wood-owl), Bycanistes subcylindricus (Sclater, 1870) (Grey-cheeked Hornbill), Spermestes bicolor (Fraser, 1843) (Black-and-white Mannikin), Cuculus clamosus Latham, 1801 (Black Cuckoo), Milvus aegyptius (Gmelin, 1788) (Yellow-billed Kite), Cossypha cyanocampter (Bonaparte, 1850) (Blue-shouldered Robin-chat), Spermestes cucullata Swainson, 1837 (Bronze Mannikin), Illadopsis fulvescens (Cassin, 1859) (Brown Illadopsis), Illadopsis fulvescens (Cassin, 1859) (Brown Illadopsis), Eurillas curvirostris (Cassin, 1860) (Plain Greenbul), Dyaphorophyia castanea Fraser, 1843 (Chestnut Wattle-eye), Pycnonotus barbatus (Desfontaines, 1789) (Common Bulbul), Lophoceros alboterminatus Büttikofer, 1889 (Crowned Hornbill), Crinifer zonurus (Rüppell, 1835) (Eastern Plantain-eater), Hylia prasina (Cassin, 1855) (Green Hylia), Treron calvus (Temminck, 1808) (African Green-pigeon), Camaroptera brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) (Bleating Camaroptera), Tricholaema hirsuta (Swainson, 1821) (Hairy-breasted Barbet), Chrysococcyx klaas (Stephens, 1815) (Klaas's Cuckoo), Eurillas virens (Cassin, 1858) (Little Greenbul), Nicator chloris (Valenciennes, 1826) (Western Nicator), Cyanomitra olivacea (Smith, 1840) (Olive Sunbird), Cossypha natalensis Smith, 1840 (Red-capped Robin-chat), Musophaga rossae Gould, 1852 (Ross's Turaco), Pternistis squamatus (Cassin, 1857) (Scaly Francolin), Lamprotornis splendidus (Vieillot, 1822) (Splendid Starling), Turtur tympanistria (Temminck, 1809) (Tambourine Dove), Sarothrura pulchra (Gray, 1829) (White-spotted Flufftail), Phyllastrephus albigularis (Sharpe, 1881) (White-throated Greenbul), Pogoniulus bilineatus (Sundevall, 1850) (Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1993-05-01 / 1995-03-30 |
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Project Data
A Rocha Uganda is part of the eleven organisations that came together to mobilise, share and use biodiversity data across four African countries to help with the conservation of four forested African landscapes. These landscapes cover over 450,000 hectares of tropical forests in four countries where the A Rocha family is undertaking conservation work. The project includes five of the organisations belonging to the A Rocha family (i.e., A Rocha Uganda, A Rocha International, A Rocha Kenya, Eden Care Initiative-Nigeria, and A Rocha Ghana) as partners. Other partner organisations include; National Museum of Kenya, African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), Kenya Wildlife Service, National Forest Authority in Uganda, Council for Scientific Industrial Research- Food Research Institute in Ghana and A.P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute in Nigeria. With funding from JRS Biodiversity Foundation and European Union (https://european-union.europa.eu/) through the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program of GBIF, a regional project “Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes” was initiated and its seeking to utilise biodiversity data to better conserve biodiversity-rich but threatened forests of Atewa in Ghana; key coastal forests of Kenya (Dakatcha, Taita Hills, Shimba Hills and Kaya Forests); Kwande and Oban-liku in Nigeria and Eastern Uganda key forests (West Bugwe and Igwe-Luvunya, South Busoga, Bukaleba, Mabira, Mukono, Mpanga, Mpigi and Zika Forest Reserves). The dataset “Occurrences of birds in eastern and central Uganda forests, 1993 to 1995” reports data collected under a programme of Uganda Forest Department’s Natural Forest Conservation Section to undertake biodiversity surveys in 65 of Uganda’s forests.
| Title | Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2020-140-REG |
| Funding | Publication of this dataset in GBIF was made possible through the BID programme of GBIF with co-funding from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. The original fieldwork was supported by grants from the EC (“Natural Forest Management and Conservation Project” 6100.37.42.015) and from UNDP/FAO through the GEF (“Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodiversity” UNO/RAF/006/GEF) |
| Study Area Description | Igwe-Luvunya Forest Reserve lies within Bukoli county in the administrative district of Bugiri. It covers an area of 19 km2 with an altitudinal range of 1113 - 1295 m. |
| Design Description | The sampling methodology used for data collection was observation. Observations were made using 8 x 30 and 10 x 40 binoculars. Effort was made to visit as many habitats as possible with maximum coverage occurring in the early morning and towards evening. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
The sampling methodology used for data collection was observation. Observations were made using 8 x 30 and 10 x 40 binoculars. Effort was made to visit as many habitats as possible with maximum coverage occurring in the early morning and towards evening.
| Study Extent | These data are a checklist of birds recorded from Igwe-Luvunya forest reserve in Uganda. |
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| Quality Control | Wherever possible, identification was carried out in the field. Birds were identified using Williams and Arlott (1980), Mackworth-Praed and Grant (1957, 1960), Guggisburg (1986), Sinclair et al. (1993), and Brown et al. (1982), Urban et al. (1986), Fry et al. (1988) and Keith et al. (1992). The order and nomenclature used in the original survey reports followed Britton (1980), Carswell and Pomeroy (1984) with revisions made by the Ornithological Sub-Committee of the East Africa Natural History Society (D. Turner, pers. comm.). The order, taxonomy and nomenclature were subsequently revised according to the HBW and BirdLife International checklist taxonomy (del Hoyo and Collar 2014, 2016). According to the original survey reports: “Ranger ornithologists were trained to make detailed field descriptions of their observations, including notes on the appearance, calls and behaviour of birds and the habitats in which they were observed. Each ranger was provided with a shortlist of (generally common, unmistakable) species that did not require verification, but records of any other species were only accepted... on submission of one (or preferably two) voucher specimens of each species... During the programme, a comprehensive reference collection was made at Forest Department headquarters. Any difficult specimens were taken to the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, or the Zoological Museum at Tring, UK for identification.” The geographic coordinates of sampling locations were recorded during the original fieldwork using the Military Grid Reference System (old version). These were converted to a standard UTM format and then to decimal latitude and longitude using GIS based tools. |
Method step description:
- The national survey of Uganda forests collected data in 65 forests. The original field survey results including all data were published in a series of reports by the Forest Department of Uganda (Howard et al. 1996). The current dataset comprises records of birds that were mist netted during this survey. We selected a sample of forests that had been surveyed in the Central and Eastern Regions of Uganda in order to digitise the data for GBIF. Electronic copies of the written reports and a separate electronic database of records were made available for this purpose by the original authors of the reports (Peter Howard). We extracted the bird mist netting records from the electronic database and supplemented these with location data provided in the narrative reports. The species names were updated to modern taxonomy by aligning the names and regionally appropriate forms (subspecies) with the HBW and BirdLife International checklist taxonomy (del Hoyo and Collar 2014, 2016) paying particular attention to potential taxonomic splits and lumps that had occurred since the original data were collected. The location data in the original reports were provided in Military Grid Reference System. These were first converted to standard UTM coordinates, noting that the MGRS was using an old datum (MGRS-AL scheme also called "MGRS old"). UTM coordinates were then converted to decimal degrees using an online conversion spreadsheet (https://giscrack.com/download-excel-template-convert-geographic-coordinates-utm/). The converted locations were then checked against Google Maps imagery to confirm that a satisfactory conversion had been made. Species records from each Forest Reserve were checked against the distribution maps in Carswell et al. (2005) and through expert assessment (J. Lindsell) to ensure that no unsubstantiated or extralimital records were included.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 3ef9b1f4-9362-41a2-849b-58c764527d91 |
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