Checklist of Birds in Mpigi forest reserve Uganda

Checklist Derived from Occurrence
Latest version published by A Rocha Uganda on Sep 18, 2022 A Rocha Uganda
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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 Mpigi forest reserve 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 158 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Barahukwa A (2022): Checklist of Birds in Mpigi forest reserve Uganda. v1.1. A Rocha Uganda. Dataset/Checklist. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=checklistofbirdsofmpigiforestreserve&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is A Rocha Uganda. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2160c7de-9271-4c29-a291-2f100e28cbce.  A Rocha Uganda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.

Keywords

Checklist; Mpigi forest

Contacts

Anke Barahukwa
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  • Research Officer
A Rocha Uganda
  • Gayaza-Kyetume, Kayunga Road P.O. Box 11569, Kampala, Uganda
Kampala
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Anke Barahukwa
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A Rocha Uganda
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Peter Howard
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Natural World Heritage Sites
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Roger NFA
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National Forestry Authority
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Geographic Coverage

The data were collected from Mpigi forest (now Gangu &Lwamunda) forest reserves.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

A total of 158 bird (Aves) species were recorded and identified to species level.

Species Columba unicincta Cassin, 1860 (Afep Pigeon), Anas sparsa Eyton, 1838 (African Black Duck)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1993-05-01 / 1995-03-30

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.

Title Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes
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)
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 dataset of birds recorded from Mpigi forest reserve
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:

  1. 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.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Davenport, T., Howard, P., & Dickinson, C. (Eds.). (1996). Mpanga, Zika and Mpigi District Forest Reserve: Biodiversity Report no. 24. Forest Department, Kampala.
  2. Howard, P. C. andDavenport, T. R. B. (1996). Forest Biodiversity Reports, vols. 1–33. Uganda Forest Department, Kampala, Uganda.
  3. Britton, P.L. (Ed.) (1980). Birds of East Africa. East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi.
  4. Brown, L.H., Urban, E. and Newman, K. (1982). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 1. Academic Press, London.
  5. Carswell, M. and Pomeroy, D. (1984). Check-list of the birds of Uganda. Ornithological Sub-Committee of the East Africa Natural History Society.
  6. Carswell, M., Pomeroy, D., Reynolds, J. and Tushabe, H. (2005) The Bird Atlas of Uganda. BOU, Oxford
  7. del Hoyo, J. and Collar, N.J. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 1: Non-passerines Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Taxonomy available from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/taxonomy.
  8. del Hoyo, J. and Collar, N.J. (2016). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volume 2: Passerines Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Taxonomy available from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/taxonomy.
  9. Fry, C.H., Keith, S. and Urban, E.K. (1988). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 3. Academic Press, London
  10. Guggisberg, C.A.W. (1986). Birds of East Africa. Volume 2. 2nd ed. Sapra Safari Guide No.6. Mount Kenya Sundries Ltd., Nairobi.
  11. Keith, S., Urban, E.K.and Fry, C.H. (1992). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 4. London, Academic Press
  12. Mackworth-Praed, C.W. and Grant, C.H.B. (1957, 1960). Birds of Eastern and North-Eastern Africa. 2nd ed. (African Handbook of Birds; series one). 2 Volumes. Longman, London
  13. Sinclair, I., Hockey, P. and Tarboton, W. (1993). Birds of Southern Africa. New Holland, London.
  14. Urban, E.K., Fry, C.H. and Keith, S. (1986). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 2. Academic Press, London.
  15. Williams, J.G. and Arlott, N. (1980). A Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Collins, London.