SAFRING: Historical Bird Ringing Records (2005-2009)
Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Nov 22, 2017
Bird ringing started in 1948 in southern Africa and is thus the longest running bird monitoring project in the sub-region. Although the data are biased to areas where ringers operated, it is an invaluable record of bird occurrence and distribution changes, arrival and departure times of migrants, survival and mass data in historical times.The South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING), which is an essential arm of the Animal Demography Unit, administers bird ringing in southern Africa.
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 2,162,753 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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
Data as a DwC-A file | download 2,162,753 records in English (36 MB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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Metadata as an EML file | download in English (6 KB) |
Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Oschadleus D (2015): SAFRING: Historical Bird Ringing Records (2005-2009). v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=safring&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b4ae1720-1431-49ee-bfeb-8146fc42b1a3. South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Birds; bird ringing; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Global; most ringing records are from southern Africa.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Birds
Species | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1948-01-01 / 2009-09-08 |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | b4ae1720-1431-49ee-bfeb-8146fc42b1a3 |
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http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=safring |