Occurrence

SAFRING: Historical Bird Ringing Records (2005-2009)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 22 November 2017 South African National Biodiversity Institute
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.
Publication date:
22 November 2017
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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.

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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

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Dieter Oschadleus
Bird ringing coordinator
Animal Demography Unit - University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
7700 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
021 650 2421
http://safring.adu.org.za/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Dieter Oschadleus
Bird ringing coordinator
Animal Demography Unit - University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
7700 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
021 650 2421
http://safring.adu.org.za/

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
021 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org/

Geographic Coverage

Global; most ringing records are from southern Africa.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Birds

Species  Aves (Birds)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1948-01-01 / 2009-09-08

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers b4ae1720-1431-49ee-bfeb-8146fc42b1a3
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=safring