ECCC Old-forest Landbird Point Counts

The old-forest landbird monitoring program was initiated in 2014. Old-forest songbirds are a priority for monitoring because they can be vulnerable to habitat disturbance, and their habitats are less common overall and difficult to restore once disturbed. This augmented program employs a stratified sampling design of point count surveys to improve monitoring of rarer songbirds of conservation concern. These data will also be used to validate models that predict bird population changes in response to oil sands activity and to further refine bird monitoring design.

Two datasets are available on the data link. 2014 data includes records for 29 938 individuals representing 137 species from 2490 sample points located among 123 survey areas. 2017 data includes records for 3014 individuals representing 88 species from 271 sample points located among 25 survey areas.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Alternate Title/Name
Creator ECCC
Contributor
Publisher ECCC
Subject Terrestrial Biology Monitoring - Biodiversity
Group/Subgroup Species-at-Risk and Difficult Species / Species-at-Risk Migratory Landbirds
Parameters Point counts (abundance, species composition)
Data Type Discrete
Frequency May-July (once)
Temporal Coverage Begins 2014-05-01
Temporal Coverage Ends 2017-07-31
Spatial Coverage
Spatial Projection
Usage Considerations or Constraints Data are open to public use subject to appropriate acknowledgement as indicated in files and in open government licence. Data comprise a set of associated spreadsheet files that can be combined to form a database structure, or used separately. The data dictionary file provides field definitions; the bird species file lists all species available for detection; the sites file lists the location of all sites surveyed; the site survey file lists information on when sites were surveyed; and the species observation log details the species observed in each survey.
Source/Citation http://donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/species/assess/species-at-risk-rare-and-difficult-species-monitoring-oil-sands-region/species-at-risk-migratory-landbirds-oil-sands-region/?lang=en
Relation Habitat data collected in association with these data can be found at ECCC Old-forest Landbird Habitat
Extent One set of five csv files, totalling approximately 3.5 MB, and one set of four csv files, totalling approximately 170 kb.
Format csv
Resouce Type spreadsheet
Language English, French
OSM Asset? Yes
Contact Email [email protected]