Casual Bird observations during fieldwork

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania on Dec 19, 2023 Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania
Publication date:
19 December 2023
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

Casual Bird observations during fieldwork. One of the fundamental components of the dataset is the accurate identification of bird species encountered during field work. This involves recording the species’ common and scientific names. Researchers have collected data on the abundance and distribution of the recorded bird species.

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. The core data table contains 1,246 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Nezaj M, Brosens D (2023). Casual Bird observations during fieldwork. Version 1.1. Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=albania-thf-birds-observations&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania. 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: a3fa8e8d-455d-46bc-a8f1-05914ce9c46a.  Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Melitjan Nezaj
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Project coordinator
Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania
  • Rruga Janos Hunyadi, Godina 32, Ap.11 Tirana, 1019
1019 Tirana
AL
  • 045628954
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
Brussels
Brussels
BE
Melitjan Nezaj
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Project Coordinator
Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania
  • Rruga Janos Hunyadi, Godina 32, Ap.11 Tirana, 1019
1019 Tirana
AL
  • 045628954
GBIF Systems
  • User

Geographic Coverage

ALBANIA

Bounding Coordinates South West [39.606, 19.116], North East [42.715, 21.061]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2022-02-17 / 2023-05-03

Project Data

The region of the Balkans is identified as a European biodiversity hot spot. The Balkans include part of Croatia, the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey. The Balkans is part of the Mediterranean Key Biodiversity Area (KBA). With this project, we aim to mobilise data from the Balkans. Species specialists from five Balkan countries will be trained in data mobilisation. By promoting, communicating, and training researchers, the project will demonstrate the importance of FAIR data availability, aiming at mainstreaming biodiversity data publication in the region. The target is publishing more than 100.000 records, which will increase the number of published data on mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles and amphibians by at least 10%. The results of this project will also be published in Biodiversity Data Journal (Pensoft Publishers).

Title The biodiversity of the Balkans in GBIF
Identifier nlbif2022.015
Funding NLBIF

Sampling Methods

Casual Bird Observations

Study Extent The dataset holds casual bird observations, recorded during field work. The recordings were gathered within the territorial confines of Albania.
Quality Control The data are collected from an experienced ornithologist.

Method step description:

  1. Data was recorded during fieldwork in observations.org
  2. Data was exported and mapped to DwC
  3. Data was imported in GBIF cloud IPT and published

Additional Metadata

Purpose

Bird recordings play a vital role in conservation efforts, as they help researchers identify threats to bird species. They are widely used as educational tool as well.
Alternative Identifiers https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=albania-thf-birds-observations