Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive (2013-2018)

Júlia Almeida

doi:10.15468/8g59qn

Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive (2013-2018)

Citation

Almeida J, da Costa L (2021). Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive (2013-2018). ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/8g59qn accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The Diretiva Aves (Birds Directive, Council Directive on the conservation of wild birds 79/409/EEC) was implemented in 1979. This Directive frames the conservation and management of wild birds in Europe and human interactions with this group. The Diretiva Aves sets broad objectives and includes the identification and classification of Zonas de Protecção Especial (ZPE) (Special Protection Areas - SPAs) for the rarest and most vulnerable species, listed in Annex I, as well as to all migratory species (not listed in Annex I) regularly occurring in the European territory. These species should be subject to special conservation measures concerning their habitat, to ensure survival and reproduction in their area of distribution, with special importance to the protection of wetlands and particularly those of international importance. The Article 12 of the Diretiva Aves requires to all Member States to forward to the Commission, every three years, a report on the implementation of national provisions taken under the Directive. Nevertheless, the Commission and all Member States have agreed to forward this report, considering its content and reporting cycle, in the same year as the report drawn up pursuant to Article 17 of the Diretiva Habitats (Habitats Directive, Council Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora 92/43/EEC), which requires more detailed information every six years. The preparation of this report follows the approved European Union format, which includes a general report on the implementation of the Diretiva Aves (Annex I), and specific reports (Annex II), containing cartographic components (in GIS format) with 10 km X 10 km grids relative to the areas of distribution of each reported species.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

This report will be prepared every 6 years and the Portuguese report covers many species considered to be regularly occurring in mainland Portugal and autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores.

Sampling

All the monitoring schemes are referred in the subsection "2.3 Monitoring schemes (Art. 4(1) and Art. 10)" of "2. General information sources on the implementation of the Birds Directive - links to information sources of the Member State" section (see http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/Converters/run_conversion?file=pt/eu/art12/envxbnbwa/PT_birds_general_report.xml&conv=609&source=remote).

Quality Control

All initial data was inserted in a specific relational database built specifically for the project, which implemented several quality control methods. In the preparation of the dataset for the GBIF publication, data consistency was verified through cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.

Method steps

Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shapefile format. The data layer was a vector layer containing polygons with various sizes. The following steps were performed: - Intersected the layer with the EEA reference grid (10km); - Calculated the WKTs for each polygon in the original (EPSG:3035) projection; - Calculated the centroids for each polygon in both WGS84 and the original (EPSG:3035) projection; - Calculated the distance of the centroids to the farthest point of the polygon (coordinate accuracy) in both WGS84 and the original (EPSG:3035) projection; - Used the WGS84 centroids to extract the locations from the CAOP2020; - Added stateProvince/municipality/locality data for centroids lacking them, by using NNJoin plugin in QGIS; - Exported to csv and reinterpreted attributes matching to DwC standard terms. Some dataset columns: - taxonID: speciescode - Unique code for Art 12 report. Four-character Natura 2000 codes are attributed only to species and subspecies. The codes for geographical populations are composed of a Natura 2000 code plus one supplementary character. For non-native populations this supplementary character is 'X' - georeferenceSources: shapefile link - dynamicProperties: mapType | category

Taxonomic Coverages

This dataset is composed by a total of 60164 records from 214 bird species, 149 genera, 59 families, and 22 orders: 17 species of Accipitriformes, 8 species of Anseriformes 5 species of Apodiformes 1 species of Bucerotiformes 2 species of Caprimulgiformes 22 species of Charadriiformes 2 species of Ciconiiformes 6 species of Columbiformes 3 species of Coraciiformes 2 species of Cuculiformes 4 species of Falconiformes 3 species of Galliformes 5 species of Gruiformes 2 species of Otidiformes 99 species of Passeriformes 10 species of Pelecaniformes 4 species of Piciformes 2 species of Podicipediformes 8 species of Procellariiformes 1 species of Pteroclidiformes 6 species of Strigiformes 2 species of Suliformes

Accipitriformes
rank: order
Anseriformes
rank: order
Apodiformes
rank: order
Bucerotiformes
rank: order
Caprimulgiformes
rank: order
Charadriiformes
rank: order
Ciconiiformes
rank: order
Columbiformes
rank: order
Coraciiformes
rank: order
Cuculiformes
rank: order
Falconiformes
rank: order
Galliformes
rank: order
Gruiformes
rank: order
Otidiformes
rank: order
Passeriformes
rank: order
Pelecaniformes
rank: order
Piciformes
rank: order
Podicipediformes
rank: order
Procellariiformes
rank: order
Pteroclidiformes
rank: order
Strigiformes
rank: order
Suliformes
rank: order
Accipitridae
rank: family
Acrocephalidae
rank: family
Aegithalidae
rank: family
Alaudidae
rank: family
Alcedinidae
rank: family
Alcidae
rank: family
Anatidae
rank: family
Apodidae
rank: family
Ardeidae
rank: family
Burhinidae
rank: family
Caprimulgidae
rank: family
Certhiidae
rank: family
Cettiidae
rank: family
Charadriidae
rank: family
Ciconiidae
rank: family
Cinclidae
rank: family
Cisticolidae
rank: family
Columbidae
rank: family
Coraciidae
rank: family
Corvidae
rank: family
Cuculidae
rank: family
Emberizidae
rank: family
Falconidae
rank: family
Fringillidae
rank: family
Glareolidae
rank: family
Hirundinidae
rank: family
Hydrobatidae
rank: family
Laniidae
rank: family
Laridae
rank: family
Locustellidae
rank: family
Meropidae
rank: family
Motacillidae
rank: family
Muscicapidae
rank: family
Oriolidae
rank: family
Otididae
rank: family
Pandionidae
rank: family
Paridae
rank: family
Passeridae
rank: family
Phalacrocoracidae
rank: family
Phasianidae
rank: family
Phylloscopidae
rank: family
Picidae
rank: family
Podicipedidae
rank: family
Procellariidae
rank: family
Prunellidae
rank: family
Pteroclididae
rank: family
Rallidae
rank: family
Recurvirostridae
rank: family
Regulidae
rank: family
Scolopacidae
rank: family
Sittidae
rank: family
Strigidae
rank: family
Sturnidae
rank: family
Sylviidae
rank: family
Threskiornithidae
rank: family
Troglodytidae
rank: family
Turdidae
rank: family
Tytonidae
rank: family
Upupidae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Mainland Portugal and autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Júlia Almeida
originator
ICNF
PT
email: julia.almeida@icnf.pt

Luis da Costa
metadata author
position: Researcher
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
PT
email: dacosta.luis@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5910-7126

Teresa Pimenta
administrative point of contact
position: Information System Senior Officer
ICNF
PT
email: teresa.pimenta@icnf.pt

Mário Reis
administrative point of contact
position: Conservation and Monitoring Senior Officer
ICNF
PT