Bird ringing data from Budongo Forest Reserve, Western Uganda

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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.

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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lindsell J, Barahukwa A, Mbiro A, Musiime A, Kaweesa S (2023). Bird ringing data from Budongo Forest Reserve, Western Uganda. Version 1.0. A Rocha Uganda. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/africa/resource?r=occurenceofbirdsinbudongoforestreserve&v=1.0

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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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 06ac3ea6-8205-4c7e-b840-ebe5c0a14472.  A Rocha Uganda publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Uganda.

Keywords

Occurrence; Mist netting; ringing; Budongo Forest Reserve; Uganda; birds; Observation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The data was collected from Budongo Forest Reserve found in Masindi district in Western Uganda based on bird ringing records

Taxonomic Coverage

A total of 1575 bird (Aves) occurrences were recorded, all identified to species level. 65 species were recorded.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

A Rocha International 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 “Ringing dataset of birds in Budongo Forest, western Uganda” sits outside the geographical foci of this project but provides a useful additional reference point for Uganda forests from the same time period.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

The sampling method used for data reported here was mist netting. The sampling effort - including both time of open nets and net length - varied greatly from occasion to occasion according to the activity being undertaken (see design description). On some occasions a tape lure was used. Nets were all four shelf (c 3 metres) general passerine nets of either 12 or 18 metres in length. Captured birds were held in cotton bird bags and processed immediately. Principle measurements were wing length (maximum chord) and body mass (grammes). The age and sex of each bird was determined where possible. Each bird was fitted with a uniquely number metal ring from the Ringing Scheme of East Africa, usually on the right leg.

Method step description:

1. Jeremy Lindsell recording mist netting and ringing data during the course of ecological research in Budongo Forest between October 1996 and May 2000. The current dataset comprises all records of birds that were mist netted by J. Lindsell during this time. An electronic copy of the database and the original field note books for the records were made available for inclusion in GBIF by Jeremy Lindsell. 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. Net locations were converted from their original reference to the forest research trail grid to geographic coordinates using a GIS.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Brown, L.H., Urban, E. and Newman, K. (1982). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 1. Academic Press, London.
2. 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. Version 6 downloaded 6 October 2021.
3. 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. Version 6 downloaded 6 October 2021.
4. Fry, C.H., Keith, S. and Urban, E.K. (1988). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 3. Academic Press, London.
5. Keith, S., Urban, E.K.and Fry, C.H. (1992). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 4. Academic Press, London.
6. Urban, E.K., Fry, C.H. and Keith, S. (1986). The Birds of Africa. Vol. 2. Academic Press, London.
7. Van Perlo, B. (1995). Birds of Eastern Africa. Collins Illustrated Checklist. HarperCollins, London.
8. Zimmerman, D.A., Turner, D.A. and Pearson, D.J. (1996). Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Russel Friedman, South Africa.

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