Occurrence

PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992

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Description

Original provider: Canadian Wildlife Service Dataset credits: Falk Huettmann & John W. Chardine, Canadian Wildlife Service Abstract: The PIROP (Programme Intégré de recherches sur les oiseaux pélagiques) data set, Atlantic subset, consists of geo-referenced vessel-based surveys to monitor pelagic seabirds. Most surveys were carried out by R.G. B. Brown from 'vessels of opportunity' supplied by the Bedford Institute for Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth/Halifax, but many other platforms and observers were used, too. During these surveys observations other than seabirds were also recorded, e.g. Waterfowl, Waterbirds, Songbirds, Raptors, Owls, Sea Mammals, and other sightings of interest (weather, oceanography, vessel activities, bird behaviour, etc.). The data collection period covers all seasons of 1966-1992, with most surveys being conducted between (late) summers of 1975-1987. The survey protocol originally consisted of unlimited width 10min transects, but was changed appr. 1984 towards a Tasker et al. (1984) type of survey (fixed-width strip transect). However, data and results from the PIROP database need to be interpreted as relative, and not absolute, abundance. Purpose: The PIROP data were collected for Canadian seabird monitoring purposes, focussing on the Canadian Atlantic, but also on other areas relevant to Canadian birds such as waters off Peru, off West Africa and off Europe. Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Larus ridibundus (176835) => Chroicocephalus ridibundus (824041) Bonaparte's Gull: Larus philadelphia (176839) => Chroicocephalus philadelphia (824040) Bridled Tern: Sterna anaethetus (176897) => Onychoprion anaethetus (824104) Caspian Tern: Sterna caspia (176924) => Hydroprogne caspia (176935) Franklin's Gull: Larus pipixcan (176838) => Leucophaeus pipixcan (824082) Great Skua: Catharacta skua (176796) => Stercorarius skua (660059) Laughing Gull: Larus atricilla (176837) => Leucophaeus atricilla (824079) Halocyptena microsoma (174648) => Oceanodroma microsoma (174646) Little Gull: Larus minutus (176840) => Hydrocoloeus minutus (824065) Little Tern: Sterna albifrons (176899) => Sternula albifrons (824126) Manx Shearwater: Puffinus puffinus puffinus (174556) => Puffinus puffinus (174555) Royal Tern: Sterna maxima (176922) => Thalasseus maximus (824142) Sandwich Tern: Sterna sandvicensis (176927) => Thalasseus sandvicensis (176932) Catharacta (176795) => Stercorarius (176791) Larus hemprichii (176854) => Ichthyaetus hemprichii (824067) Sooty Tern: Sterna fuscata (176894) => Onychoprion fuscatus (824105) South Polar Skua: Catharacta maccormicki (176801) => Stercorarius maccormicki (660062) Actitis macularia (176612) => Actitis macularius (726049) Pterodroma rostrata (174591) => Pseudobulweria rostrata (562522) Larus sabini (176865) => Xema sabini (176866) Phalaropodidae (176732) => Scolopacidae (176568) Pinnipedia (180614) => Caniformia (552303) [2020-08-18] Atlantic spotted dolphins and Pantropical spotted dolphins were associated with opposite scientific names and ITIS TSNs. This error is fixed. [2015-03-24] Some records had a wrong animal count of zero. The value is replaced with a blank representing species presence only. Data correction: Puffinus creatopus (Pink-footed Shearwater; ITIS: 174547) observed on 1982-08-16 12:00:00 at 53.9000:-55.5000 (id=151664) changed to Procellariidae (Shearwaters; ITIS: 174532) as P. creatopus does not occur in the Atlantic. The PIROP data has effort data which is not as complete as to generate tracklines. It's available upon request and you are strongly encouraged to discuss with the data providers how to handle the effort data. The PIROP data set is a large pool of seabird data, which got extended and modified over the years, e.g. due to changes of objectives and staff. Appr. in 1998 the data were merged by CWS-Dartmouth office with the Manomet Bird Observatory Seabird database, which cover mostly the Gulf of Maine region. The following references refer to the PIROP database and present an overview about the structure, application and value of the data:

  • Brown R.G.B. 1967. Sea Birds off Halifax. Canadian Field-Naturalist 81:276-8.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1970. Fulmar distribution: a Canadian perspective. Ibis 111:44-51.
  • Brown, R.G.B. 1971. PIROP Instruction Manual. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1973. Transatlantic migration of Fulmars from the European Arctic. Canadian Field-Naturalist 87:312-3.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1977. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds Supplement 1 Halifax-Bermuda transects. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1979. Seabirds of the Senegal upwelling and adjacent waters. Ibis 121:283-92.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1984. Seabirds in the Greenland, Barents and Norwegian Seas, February-April 1982. Polar Research 2:1-18.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1986. Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds. Bedford Institute of Oceanography: Candian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1988. The Wing-moult of Fulmars and Shearwaters (Procellariidae) in Canadian Atlantic Waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 102:203-8.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1991.Marine birds and climatic warming in the northwest Atlantic. In: Montevecchi W.A, Gaston A.J., eds. Studies of high-latitude seabirds.1.Behavioural, energetic, and oceanographic aspects of seabird feeding ecology. Volume Occasional Paper Number 1968. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B and D.N. Nettleship 1983. Seabird distribution studies. (Bedford Institute of Oceanography BIO Review '83). Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B., Nettleship D.N., Germain P, Tull C.E., and Davis T. 1975. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Diamond A.W. 1985. A computer model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern and arctic Canada. Volume Final Report. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B. 1986. Converting PIROP counts of seabirds at sea to absolute densities. Progress Notes No 164
  • Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B.. 1993 Studies of high-latitude seabirds. 3.A model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern Arctic CanadaMontevecchi WA, ed. Occasional Paper Number 77. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa
  • Germain P., Brown R.G.B., and Tull C.E. 1973. Autumn seabird distribution in Canadian Arctic and Greenland waters. Studies on Northern Seabirds. Manuscript Report(No.
  • Huettmann, F. 1997. TraPirp2: SQL PIROP import codes from ASCII Text into dBASE format. ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network), Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
  • Huettmann, F. 1998. An Ecological GIS Research Application for the Northern Atlantic-The PIROP Database Software, Environmental Data Sets and the Role of the Internet/WWW. In: Riekert W.-F. and Tochtermann K. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.17, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 213-217.
  • Huettmann F. 2000a. Environmental Determination of Seabird Distribution in the Northwest Atlantic. Atlantic Cooperative Ecology Wildlife Research Network (ACWERN). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B./Canada
  • Huettmann, F. 2000b. Making use of public large-scale environmental databases from the WWW and a GIS for georeferenced prediction modelling: A research application using Generalized Linear Models, Classification and Regression Trees and Neural Networks. In: Tochtermann, K. and Riekert W.-F. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.24, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 308-312.
  • Huettmann F. 2000. Seabird migration in the Canadian North Atlantic: moulting locations and movement patterns of immatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology 33:1-25.
  • Huettmann, F. and Lock, T. 1997. A new software system for the PIROP database: data flow and an approach for a seabird-depth analysis. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54:518-23.
  • Huettmann, F. and Diamond, A.W. 2001a. Using PCA Scores to classify species communities: an example using seabird classifications at sea. Journal for Applied Statistics 28:843-853.
  • Huettmann F. and Diamond A.W. 2001b. Seabird colony locations and environmental determination of seabird distribution: A spatially explicit seabird breeding model in the Northwest Atlantic. Ecological Modelling 141: 261-298.
  • King, W.B., Watson, G.E. and Gould, P.J. 1967. An application of automatic data processing to the study of the world ocean. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 123, No 3609.
  • Lock A.R., Brown R.G.B., Gerriets S.H. 1994. Gazetteer of Marine Birds in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth NS Canada

Data Records

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Hyrenbach, D., F. Huettmann and J. Chardine. 2012. PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/280) on yyyy-mm-dd.

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Keywords

Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,seabird ecology,seabird monitoring,seabird surveys,index of relative abundance,sea mammal surveys,songbird surveys; Observation; Occurrence

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Contacts

John Chardine
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  • Originator
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Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
Falk Huettmann
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Canadian Wildlife Service
David Hyrenbach
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Duke University Marine Laboratory
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Geographic Coverage

Northwest Atlantic,Atlantic Canada,Maritimes (Canada),Northwest Atlantic,Newfoundland Grand Banks,Labrador,Hudson Bay,Western Greenland,Lancaster Sound,Gulf of St. Lawrence,Scotian Shelf,Bay of Fundy,Gulf of Maine,Georges Bank

Bounding Coordinates South West [-25.15, -149.567], North East [79.783, 18.567]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Class Aves (Birds)
Order Gaviiformes, Procellariiformes, Anseriformes (Ducks), Charadriiformes, Cetacea (cetaceans)
Suborder Caniformia (pinnipeds)
Family Diomedeidae, Procellariidae (Fulmars), Procellariidae (Fulmars), Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anatidae (Ducks), Anatidae (Ducks), Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae, Stercorariidae, Laridae (Gulls), Laridae (Gulls), Laridae (Gulls), Delphinidae (dolphins), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Phocidae (earless seals), Hyperoodontidae
Genus Fulmarus, Puffinus, Pterodroma, Pelagodroma (White-faced Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma (Dark Storm Petrels), Phaethon, Sula, Fregata, Bucephala (Goldeneyes), Somateria (Greater Eiders), Melanitta (Scoters), Melanitta (Scoters), Mergus (Greater Mergansers), Haematopus, Tringa, Limnodromus, Limosa, Stercorarius, Stercorarius, Larus, Sterna, Anous, Uria, Cepphus, Fratercula, Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins)
Species Gavia immer (Common Loon), Gavia arctica (Arctic Loon), Gavia stellata (Red-throated Loon), Podiceps grisegena (Red-necked Grebe), Fulmarus glacialis (Northern Fulmar), Puffinus creatopus (Pink-footed Shearwater), Puffinus carneipes (Flesh-footed Shearwater), Puffinus gravis (Great Shearwater), Puffinus pacificus (Wedge-tailed Shearwater), Puffinus griseus (Sooty Shearwater), Puffinus tenuirostris (Short-tailed Shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater), Puffinus auricularis (Manx), Puffinus assimilis (Little Shearwater), Puffinus lherminieri (Audubon's Shearwater), Pterodroma hasitata (Black-capped Petrel), Pterodroma arminjoniana (Herald Petrel), Pterodroma arminjoniana (Herald Petrel), Pterodroma externa (Juan Fernandez Petrel), Pterodroma phaeopygia (Galapagos Petrel), Pelagodroma marina (White-faced Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma furcata (Fork-tailed Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach's Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma castro (Band-rumped Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma tethys (Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma melania (Black Storm Petrel), Oceanodroma microsoma (Least Storm Petrel), Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's Storm Petrel), Fregetta grallaria (White-bellied Storm Petrel), Nesofregetta fuliginosa (Polynesian Storm Petrel), Hydrobates pelagicus (European Storm Petrel), Phaethon aethereus (Red-billed Tropicbird), Phaethon lepturus (White-tailed Tropicbird), Phaethon rubricauda (Red-tailed Tropicbird), Pelecanus occidentalis (Brown Pelican), Sula dactylatra (Masked Booby), Sula leucogaster (Brown Booby), Sula sula (Red-footed Booby), Morus bassanus (Northern Gannet), Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant), Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant), Phalacrocorax pelagicus (Pelagic Cormorant), Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Fregata magnificens (Magnificent Frigatebird), Fregata minor (Great Frigatebird), Branta canadensis (Canada Goose), Branta bernicla (Brant), Anser albifrons (Greater White-fronted Goose), Chen caerulescens (Blue Goose), Chen caerulescens (Blue Goose), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Anas rubripes (American Black Duck), Anas crecca (Eurasian Teal), Aythya marila (Greater Scaup), Bucephala albeola (Bufflehead), Clangula hyemalis (Long-tailed Duck), Polysticta stelleri (Steller's Eider), Somateria mollissima (Common Eider), Somateria fischeri (Spectacled Eider), Melanitta fusca (Velvet Scoter), Melanitta nigra (Black Scoter), Lophodytes cucullatus (Hooded Merganser), Mergus merganser (Common Merganser), Mergus serrator (Red-breasted Merganser), Charadrius semipalmatus (Semipalmated Plover), Charadrius montanus (Mountain Plover), Tringa melanoleuca (Greater Yellowlegs), Tringa flavipes (Lesser Yellowlegs), Calidris maritima (Purple Sandpiper), Calidris melanotos (Pectoral Sandpiper), Calidris fuscicollis (White-rumped Sandpiper), Calidris bairdii (Baird's Sandpiper), Calidris minutilla (Least Sandpiper), Calidris alpina (Dunlin), Calidris pusilla (Semipalmated Sandpiper), Calidris alba (Sanderling), Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian Godwit), Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe), Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope), Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked Phalarope), Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson's Phalarope), Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine Jaeger), Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger), Stercorarius longicaudus (Long-tailed Jaeger), Larus hyperboreus (Glaucous Gull), Larus glaucescens (Glaucous-winged Gull), Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull), Larus schistisagus (Slaty-backed Gull), Larus occidentalis (Western Gull), Larus fuscus (Lesser Black-backed Gull), Larus argentatus (Herring Gull), Larus thayeri (Thayer's Gull), Larus californicus (California Gull), Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull), Larus canus (Mew Gull), Pagophila eburnea (Ivory Gull), Xema sabini (Sabine's Gull), Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake), Sterna forsteri (Forster's Tern), Sterna hirundo (Common Tern), Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern), Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern), Sterna repressa (White-cheeked Tern), Thalasseus sandvicensis (Sandwich Tern), Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern), Anous stolidus (Brown Noddy), Anous tenuirostris (Sooty Noddy), Gygis alba (Angel Tern), Chlidonias leucopterus (White-winged Tern), Chlidonias niger (Black Tern), Alca torda (Razorbill), Uria aalge (Common Murre), Uria lomvia (Thick-billed Murre), Alle alle (Dovekie), Cepphus grylle (Black Guillemot), Cepphus carbo (Spectacled Guillemot), Synthliboramphus hypoleucus (Xantus's Murrelet), Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Cassin's Auklet), Cerorhinca monocerata (Rhinoceros Auklet), Fratercula arctica (Atlantic Puffin), Fratercula cirrhata (Tufted Puffin), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin), Stenella clymene (Clymene Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear), Odobenus rosmarus (Walrus), Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Erignathus barbatus (Bearded Seal), Cystophora cristata (Hooded Seal), Calonectris diomedea (Cory's Shearwater), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic Spotted Dolphin), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Phoebastria nigripes (Black-footed Albatross), Pterodroma cookii (Cook's Petrel), Pseudobulweria rostrata (Tahiti Petrel), Pusa hispida (Ringed Seal), Pagophilus groenlandicus (Harp Seal), Stercorarius skua (Great Skua), Stercorarius maccormicki (South Polar Skua), Actitis macularius (Spotted Sandpiper), Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's Gull), Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Common Black-headed Gull), Hydrocoloeus minutus (Little Gull), Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Sooty Gull), Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing Gull), Leucophaeus pipixcan (Franklin's Gull), Onychoprion anaethetus (Bridled Tern), Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty Tern), Sternula albifrons (Little Tern), Thalasseus maximus (Royal Tern)
Subspecies Podiceps auritus cornutus, Larus glaucoides glaucoides, Larus glaucoides kumlieni

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1965-01-22 / 1992-09-30

Project Data

No Description available

Title PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

John Chardine
  • Owner
Falk Huettmann
  • Owner
David Hyrenbach
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_280
Collection Identifier zd_280
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose The PIROP data were collected for Canadian seabird monitoring purposes, focussing on the Canadian Atlantic, but also on other areas relevant to Canadian birds such as waters off Peru, off West Africa and off Europe.
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_280