Atlas of Breeding Birds 1999-2005 - Other Species

Vitor Encarnação; Júlia Almeida

doi:10.15468/hqruke

Atlas of Breeding Birds 1999-2005 - Other Species

Citation

Encarnação V, Almeida J, Equipa Atlas, da Costa L (2021). Atlas of Breeding Birds 1999-2005 - Other Species. ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hqruke accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The Atlas of breeding birds of Portugal makes an inventory of all 235 breeding species, from which 221 are native species, and 205 presenting a regular breeding activity. The Atlas covers a period from 1999 to 2005. The project "Atlas of breeding Birds of Portugal" aimed to know the current distribution of breeding species in Continental Portugal and in the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores. It pretended also to characterize the abundance, when possible, of national populations of these species, during the period of 1999 to 2005. This dataset comprised two layers of information: Directed Census - Distribution data of birds target-species by directed census, except for Aquila adalberti, Aegypius monachus and Pterocles alchata whose location is confidential (includes marginal 10x10 km UTM grids); Other species - distribution data for the remaining species (excluding UTM 10x10 km marginal grids). The project involved the participation of ca. 500 volunteers, more than a dozen professional collaborators and various working teams. The project results from a fundamental partnership with three other entities, namely the SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, a non-governmental association that works for the conservation of birds and their habitats in Portugal and which brings together numerous members interested in this faunal group); the Parque Natural da Madeira (PNM, Madeira Natural Park), and the Direção Regional do Ambiente dos Açores (DRA, Regional Environment Directorate of the Azores), entities responsible for the conservation of wild birds in the autonomous regions. The Atlas contains occurrence data for breeding birds belonging to 20 orders, 58 families, 115 genus, and 180 species.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The geographic area considered for the original study was Continental Portugal.

Sampling

This atlas collected information on the distribution of the breeding species in Continental Portugal and in the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores during 1999-2005. Whenever possible, they also characterize the abundance of national populations of these species. Moreover, information was classified according to breeding activities observed as: possible breeding, confirmed breeding, no data.

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 GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.

Method steps

Aggregation of original data from several sources (see above) into a purpose specific relational database built for the project. For details, see Equipa Atlas (2008). Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shape file format obtained in: https://sig.icnf.pt/portal/home/item.html?id=067cb81bdc8148839f44ad6115b1824e The data layer was a grid layer containing 10x10 km UTM polygons. The following steps were performed: - conversion of the spatial layer to geographic coordinates using WGS84 as reference system; - determination of centroids from the 10x10 km grid polygons; - used the centroids to determine the locations based on the Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal 2020 (CAOP2020) and OpenStreetMaps; - extraction of decimal latitude and longitude of the centroids; - calculation of the coordinates precision based on the distance of the centroid, to the farthest point of the polygon that originated it; - determination of WKT for the polygons, for which centroids were considered; - exportation to csv file and reinterpretation of attributes matching to DwC standard terms. dynamicProperties are including: (1) breedingCode (cod_contat in original dataset) from 0 to 18 (indicated in occurrenceRemarks) (2) atlasSpeciesCode (cod_especi in original dataset) as follows

Taxonomic Coverages

A total of 180 other breeding species are included, represented by (alphabetical list of orders): 12 species of Accipitriformes, 9 species of Anseriformes, 4 species of Apodiformes, 1 species of Bucerotiformes, 2 species of Caprimulgiformes, 12 species of Charadriiformes, 5 species of Columbiformes, 3 species of Coraciiformes, 2 species of Cuculiformes, 2 species of Falconiformes, 2 species of Galliformes, 5 species of Gruiformes, 1 species of Otidiformes, 101 species of Passeriformes (in 28 families), 4 species of Pelecaniformes (in 2 families), 4 species of Piciformes, 2 species of Podicipediformes, 1 species of Psittaciformes, and 4 species of Strigiformes.

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Chordata
rank: phylum
Aves
rank: class
Strigiformes
rank: order
Accipitriformes
rank: order
Anseriformes
rank: order
Apodiformes
rank: order
Bucerotiformes
rank: order
Caprimulgiformes
rank: order
Charadriiformes
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
Psittaciformes
rank: order
Accipitridae
rank: family
Accipitridae
rank: family
Sturnidae
rank: family
Acrocephalidae
rank: family
Scolopacidae
rank: family
Aegithalidae
rank: family
Alaudidae
rank: family
Alcedinidae
rank: family
Phasianidae
rank: family
Estrildidae
rank: family
Anatidae
rank: family
Motacillidae
rank: family
Apodidae
rank: family
Ardeidae
rank: family
Strigidae
rank: family
Burhinidae
rank: family
Caprimulgidae
rank: family
Fringillidae
rank: family
Muscicapidae
rank: family
Certhiidae
rank: family
Cettiidae
rank: family
Charadriidae
rank: family
Laridae
rank: family
Cinclidae
rank: family
Cuculidae
rank: family
Columbidae
rank: family
Coraciidae
rank: family
Corvidae
rank: family
Cisticolidae
rank: family
Hirundinidae
rank: family
Picidae
rank: family
Emberizidae
rank: family
Ploceidae
rank: family
Falconidae
rank: family
Rallidae
rank: family
Glareolidae
rank: family
Recurvirostridae
rank: family
Laniidae
rank: family
Locustellidae
rank: family
Meropidae
rank: family
Oriolidae
rank: family
Pandionidae
rank: family
Paridae
rank: family
Passeridae
rank: family
Phylloscopidae
rank: family
Threskiornithidae
rank: family
Podicipedidae
rank: family
Prunellidae
rank: family
Psittacidae
rank: family
Regulidae
rank: family
Remizidae
rank: family
Sittidae
rank: family
Sylviidae
rank: family
Otididae
rank: family
Troglodytidae
rank: family
Turdidae
rank: family
Tytonidae
rank: family
Upupidae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Continental Portugal

Bibliographic Citations

Equipa Atlas (2008). Atlas das Aves Nidificantes em Portugal (1999-2005). Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade , Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Parque Natural da Madeira e Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar. Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa. 592pp. -
Fok K.W., Wade C.M. and Parkin D.T. 2002. Inferring the phylogeny of disjunct populations of the azure–winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus from mitochondrial control region sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 269(1501):1671-1679 - doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2057

Contacts

Vitor Encarnação
originator
ICNF
PT

Júlia Almeida
originator
ICNF
PT

Equipa Atlas
originator
ICNF, SPEA
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

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