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