Description
The dataset "Rapid Documentation of Avian species of Marina Beach, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India." is published by Nature Mates-Nature club.
Marina beach is a natural urban beach located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India along Bay of Bengal. It covers an area of about 6 km making it second longest urban beach in the world after Cox's Bazar Beach. Marina beach is particularly noted for Olive Ridley Turtle a species classified as Schedule 1 of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 that nests during mating season, chiefly between late October and April peaking from mid-January to mid-February.
This beach was famous for its pristine beauty, cheerful ambience and rich ecosystem. Since the last five to six decades, the beach and water have been polluted due to proliferation of plastic bags, human waste and other pollutants.
In recent years, government have taken the initiative of cleaning up the marina and protecting the ecosystem. Special efforts include the protection of olive ridley turtle nests along the Neelankarai stretch of beach.
This dataset records the avian species that were observed during a visit to Marina beach on 25th of November 2024.
All the birds have been identified upto species level. There are 7 birds species in total, with record of them in 5 different families and 3 different orders.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 1 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Chatterjee L, Sengupta N, Samanta T, Basu Roy A, Barve V (2024). Rapid documentation of Avian Species of Marina Beach, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.. Version 1.8. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Samplingevent dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=marinachennaibirds&v=1.8
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. 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.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b7b7f0df-67c2-4c98-b98c-f3596e1ca842. Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Marina beach is a natural urban beach located in Chennai Tamil Nadu, India along Bay of Bengal The beach runs from near Fort St. George in the north to Foreshore Estate in the south covering a distance of 6.0 km.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [13.05, 80.276], North East [13.068, 80.289] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the birds have been identified upto species level. There are 7 bird species in total, with records of them in 5 different families and 3 different orders.
| Class | Aves (Bird) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2024-11-26 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Nature Mates Nature Club |
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Sampling Methods
Point Count
| Study Extent | Marina beach is a natural urban beach located in Chennai Tamil nadu, India along Bay of bengal. It covers an area of about 6km making it second longest urban beach in the world |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Nikon D750 with 200-500 zoom lens. Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
Bibliographic Citations
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org
- IUCN. (2022). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=marinachennaibirds |
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