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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Unknown
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title:
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Description:
Abstract:
Periodic counts of shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers and allies), principally during northward and southward migration periods.
Purpose:
Project was designed to compare migration phenology and relative species abundance of shorebirds over a broad geographic scale in the Western Hemisphere.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1975
Ending_Date: 2008
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent: North, Central, and South America
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Charadriidae
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: migration counts,
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Western Hemisphere
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: North America
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: South America
Taxonomy:
Keywords/Taxon:
Taxonomic_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Taxonomic_Keywords: multiple species
Taxonomic_Keywords: birds
Taxonomic_System:
Classification_System/Authority:
Classification_System_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: American Ornithologists' Union
Publication_Date: 1998
Title: Check-list of North American Birds
Edition: Seventh
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book
Online_Linkage: <http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3>
Classification_System_Modifications:
The check-list is revised and updated on an annual basis by the American Ornithologists' Union. Revisions are published in The Auk.
Taxonomic_Procedures:
Observers have pre-existing knowledge of bird identification or they use published field guides.
General_Taxonomic_Coverage:
Birds, specifically the families Jacanidae, Haematopodidae, Recurvirostridae, Charadriidae, Scolopacidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Kingdom
Taxon_Rank_Value: Animalia
Applicable_Common_Name: animals
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Phylum
Taxon_Rank_Value: Chordata
Applicable_Common_Name: chordates
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Subphylum
Taxon_Rank_Value: Vertebrata
Applicable_Common_Name: vertebrates
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Aves
Applicable_Common_Name: birds
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Order
Taxon_Rank_Value: Charadriiformes
Access_Constraints:
By our request and by agreement with Cornell, data are to be withheld from public access until 2011.
Use_Constraints: None
Data_Set_Credit:
Project data collected almost wholly by volunteers associated with the project
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
historically: paper files, text data files and SAS datasets Currently: through eBird
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B. A., and R. I. G. Morrison
Publication_Date: 1979
Title: Semipalmated Sandpiper migration in North America.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Studies in Avian Biol. 2, 83-100.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Morrison, R. I. G., and B. A. Harrington.
Publication_Date: 1979
Title:
Critical shorebird resources in James Bay and eastern North America.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details:
pp. 498-507 in Trans. of the 44th No. Am. Wildl. and Nat. Res. Conf., Wildl. Management Inst., Wash., D. C.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Howe, M. A., P. H. Geissler, and B. A. Harrington.
Publication_Date: 1989
Title:
Population trends of North American shorebirds based on the International Shorebird Survey.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Biological Conservation 49: 185-199.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B. A., J. P. Myers, and J. S. Grear.
Publication_Date: 1989
Title: Coastal refueling sites for global bird migrants.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details:
Coastal Zone89: Proc. of the sixth symp. on Coastal and Ocean Manag., v. 5: 4293-4307. Am. Soc. of Civil Eng., New York.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B. A., et al.
Publication_Date: 1991
Title:
Migration and mass change of White-rumped Sandpipers in North and South America.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Wilson Bull.103: 621-636.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Collazo, J.A., Harrington, B.A., Grear, J.S., Colon, J.A.
Publication_Date: 1995
Title:
Abundance and distribution of shorebirds at the Cabo Rojo salt flats, Puerto Rico
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: J Field Ornithol, 66: 424-438
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Morrison, R.I.G., and B.A. Harrington.
Publication_Date: 1992
Title:
The migration system of the Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa in the New World.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Wader Study Group Bull. 64, Suppl.: 71-84.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B. A., & E. Perry.
Publication_Date: 1996
Title:
Important shorebird staging sites meeting Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network criteria in the United States.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, No. Am. Wetlands Office; 1-121.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B. A. 1995.
Publication_Date: 1995
Title: Shorebirds: East of the 105th Meridian.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details:
pp 57-60 in Our Living Resources, U.S. Dept. Interior, National Biological Service, Washington, D.C.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Harrington, B.A., C. Picone, S. Resende and F. Leeuwenberg. 1993.
Publication_Date: 1993
Title:
Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica migration in southern Argentina.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Wader Study Group Bull. 67:41-44.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Brown, S. C., C. Hickey, B. Harrington, and R. Gill (Eds).
Publication_Date: 2001
Title: United States shorebird conservation plan.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet, MA
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Morrison, R. I. G., R.E. Gill, Jr., B. A. Harrington, S. Skagen, G.W. Page,
Publication_Date: 2000
Title: Population estimates of Nearctic shorebirds.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details: Waterbirds 23: 337-352
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harrington, B.
Publication_Date: 2005
Title:
Coastal bird migration staging sites: an international conservation challenge.
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
Other_Citation_Details:
In America's Changing Coasts, D.M. Whitelaw & G.R. Visgilio, Eds. Edward Elgar Publishers. 208 pp.
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Spot-checking data as received from cooperators, proofing of data after data-entry
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Completeness_Report: Only selected species are included
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description: No process steps have been described for this data set
Process_Date: Unknown
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Local:
Local_Description:
In North America, eBird records locality to nearest .00001 degrees. In previous years and in some past records, locations only recorded to nearest minute (although with the conversion to eBird some have been plotted at finer spatial resolution)
Local_Georeference_Information:
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Brian Harrington
Contact_Organization: Manomet Center for Conservations Sciences
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 81 Stage Point Rd., PO Box 1770
City: Manomet
State_or_Province: Massachusetts
Postal_Code: 02630
Country: United States
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 224-6521
Distribution_Liability: xx
Custom_Order_Process:
No request from Conservationists, Managers or researchers has ever been declined.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20070111
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Jim Lowe
Contact_Organization: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
City: Ithaca
State_or_Province: NY
Postal_Code: 14850
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 607-254-2413
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: JDL6@cornell.edu
Contact_Instructions: E-Mail is preferred
Metadata_Standard_Name:
FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999
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