Description
Original provider:
European Seabirds at Sea
Dataset credits:
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (United Kingdom)
Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (the Netherlands)
Ornis Consult (Denmark)
National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management/RIKZ (the Netherlands)
Nederlands Zeevogelgroep (the Netherlands)
Instituut voor Bos- en Natuuronderzoek (the Netherlands)
Instituut voor Natuur Behoud (Belgium)
National Environmental Research Institute (Denmark)
Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (Norway)
Vogelwarte Helgoland (Germany)
Abstract:
The European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) database was established in 1991 as a collaboration between individuals and institutes who had collected data on the distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in north-west European offshore areas. The most recent version of this database contains over two million records which were collected over 25 years.
Purpose:
The founding aim of this project was to merge data from different collaborators and use these to publish an atlas depicting vulnerable concentrations of seabirds to oil pollution. Subsequently, these data have been used for a wide variety of research purposes. The collaboration has also developed and defined common standards in data capture, processing and storage.
Supplemental information:
[2020-10-01] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Larus ridibundus (176835) => Chroicocephalus ridibundus (824041)
Corvus monedula (179746) => Coloeus monedula (916629)
Little Gull: Larus minutus (176840) => Hydrocoloeus minutus (824065)
Little Tern: Sterna albifrons (176899) => Sternula albifrons (824126)
Mediterranean Gull: Larus melanocephalus (176858) => Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (824070)
Red Phalarope: Phalaropus fulicaria (554376) => Phalaropus fulicarius (176734)
Sandwich Tern: Sterna sandvicensis (176927) => Thalasseus sandvicensis (176932)
Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936)
Phylloscopus sibilatrix (179847) => Phylloscopus sibillatrix (916708)
Sula bassanus (174711) => Morus bassanus (174712)
Larus sabini (176865) => Xema sabini (176866)
Saxicola torquata (554448) => Saxicola torquatus (726114)
[2015-03-24] A few records had a wrong animal count of zero. The value is replaced with a blank representing species presence only.
This dataset represents a subset of version 4.1 of the ESAS database, which is composed of three related tables. As some attributes from the original dataset are dropped in the public view, certain records may appear as duplicate observations. This, however, is not the case, as these records will have varying attribute values in the original database (e.g., age/plumage/behavior, etc.) and should therefore be treated as separate entities.
Species notes:
Species EURING code 462 (noted [sp_obs] field in the dataset) is Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus. As ITIS doesn't register this species, it is represented as Puffinus puffinus (TSN 174555), instead.
Species EURING code 460 (noted the [sp_obs] field in the dataset) is Puffinus puffinus whose counterpart in ITIS is also Puffinus puffinus (TSN 174555).
This dataset includes multiple trips whose survey methods vary. Please consult the data provider for the proper use of the dataset.
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 1,122,886 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Dunn, T. 2012. JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/427) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 93c8cc03-30cf-474e-8173-dbe5a22a5d28. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,seabirds; seabird; sea; ESAS; marine; mammal; cetacean; turtle; offshore; ocean;; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/427 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/427/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
north; west; offshore; European; Atlantic; Irish; Channel; Celtic; shelf; oceanic; Skaggerak; Kategat; Belt; Irish; English; Bristol; Biscay; oceanic
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [38.633, -28.85], North East [76.85, 14.9] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Class | Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes), Aves (Birds) |
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| Order | Anseriformes (Ducks), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Testudines (Turtles) |
| Suborder | Caniformia (pinnipeds) |
| Family | Procellariidae (Fulmars), Procellariidae (Fulmars), Anatidae (Ducks), Laridae (Gulls), Laridae (Gulls), Laridae (Gulls), Laridae (Gulls), Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins) |
| Genus | Gavia (Loons), Podiceps, Puffinus, Phalacrocorax, Cygnus (Swans), Anser (Bean Geese), Melanitta (Scoters), Calidris, Phalaropus, Stercorarius, Larus, Larus, Larus, Larus, Larus, Larus, Sterna, Sterna, Motacilla, Anthus, Emberiza (Eurasian Buntings), Corvus, Turdus, Turdus, Phylloscopus, Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins), Mesoplodon (beaked whales), Balaenoptera (baleen whales) |
| Species | Cetorhinus maximus (basking shark), Lamna nasus (porbeagle), Isurus oxyrinchus (shortfin mako), Prionace glauca (blue shark), Mola mola (ocean sunfish), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Gavia immer (Common Loon), Gavia arctica (Arctic Loon), Gavia stellata (Red-throated Loon), Podiceps grisegena (Red-necked Grebe), Podiceps cristatus (Great Crested Grebe), Fulmarus glacialis (Northern Fulmar), Puffinus gravis (Great Shearwater), Puffinus griseus (Sooty Shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater), Pterodroma mollis (Soft-plumaged Petrel), Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach's Storm Petrel), Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's Storm Petrel), Hydrobates pelagicus (European Storm Petrel), Morus bassanus (Northern Gannet), Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant), Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Ardea cinerea (Gray Heron), Cygnus olor (Mute Swan), Cygnus cygnus (Whooper Swan), Branta bernicla (Brant), Branta leucopsis (Barnacle Goose), Anser albifrons (Greater White-fronted Goose), Anser anser (Greylag Goose), Anser brachyrhynchus (Pink-footed Goose), Tadorna tadorna (Common Shelduck), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Anas strepera (Gadwall), Anas acuta (Northern Pintail), Anas crecca (Eurasian Teal), Anas penelope (Eurasian Wigeon), Anas clypeata (Northern Shoveler), Aythya ferina (Common Pochard), Aythya marila (Greater Scaup), Aythya fuligula (Tufted Duck), Bucephala clangula (Common Goldeneye), Clangula hyemalis (Long-tailed Duck), Somateria mollissima (Common Eider), Melanitta fusca (Velvet Scoter), Melanitta perspicillata (Surf Scoter), Melanitta nigra (Black Scoter), Mergus merganser (Common Merganser), Mergus serrator (Red-breasted Merganser), Accipiter nisus (Eurasian Sparrowhawk), Pandion haliaetus (Osprey), Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon), Falco columbarius (Merlin), Falco tinnunculus (Common Kestrel), Fulica atra (Eurasian Coot), Haematopus ostralegus (Eurasian Oystercatcher), Vanellus vanellus (Northern Lapwing), Charadrius hiaticula (Common Ringed Plover), Pluvialis apricaria (European Golden Plover), Pluvialis squatarola (Black-bellied Plover), Arenaria interpres (Ruddy Turnstone), Scolopax rusticola (Eurasian Woodcock), Numenius arquata (Eurasian Curlew), Numenius phaeopus (Whimbrel), Actitis hypoleucos (Common Sandpiper), Tringa erythropus (Spotted Redshank), Tringa totanus (Common Redshank), Tringa nebularia (Common Greenshank), Tringa ochropus (Green Sandpiper), Calidris canutus (Red Knot), Calidris maritima (Purple Sandpiper), Calidris ferruginea (Curlew Sandpiper), Calidris alpina (Dunlin), Calidris alba (Sanderling), Calidris minuta (Little Stint), Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed Godwit), Limosa limosa (Black-tailed Godwit), Philomachus pugnax (Ruff), Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe), Recurvirostra avosetta (Pied Avocet), Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope), Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked Phalarope), Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine Jaeger), Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger), Stercorarius longicaudus (Long-tailed Jaeger), Larus hyperboreus (Glaucous Gull), Larus glaucoides (Iceland Gull), Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull), Larus marinus (Great Black-backed Gull), Larus fuscus (Lesser Black-backed Gull), Larus argentatus (Herring Gull), Larus canus (Mew Gull), Xema sabini (Sabine's Gull), Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake), Sterna hirundo (Common Tern), Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern), Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern), Thalasseus sandvicensis (Sandwich Tern), Chlidonias niger (Black Tern), Alca torda (Razorbill), Uria aalge (Common Murre), Uria lomvia (Thick-billed Murre), Alle alle (Dovekie), Cepphus grylle (Black Guillemot), Fratercula arctica (Atlantic Puffin), Columba livia (Common Pigeon), Columba livia (Common Pigeon), Columba oenas (Stock Dove), Columba palumbus (Common Wood Pigeon), Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian Collared Dove), Streptopelia turtur (European Turtle Dove), Asio otus (Long-eared Owl), Asio flammeus (Short-eared Owl), Apus apus (Common Swift), Alauda arvensis (Eurasian Skylark), Riparia riparia (Bank Swallow), Hirundo rustica (Barn Swallow), Motacilla alba (White Wagtail), Motacilla cinerea (Gray Wagtail), Motacilla flava (Western Yellow Wagtail), Anthus spinoletta (Water Pipit), Anthus pratensis (Meadow Pipit), Fringilla montifringilla (Brambling), Fringilla coelebs (Common Chaffinch), Carduelis carduelis (Eurasian Goldfinch), Carduelis flammea (Common Redpoll), Plectrophenax nivalis (Snow Bunting), Emberiza citrinella (Yellowhammer), Emberiza schoeniclus (Common Reed Bunting), Sturnus vulgaris (Common Starling), Corvus corax (Common Raven), Corvus frugilegus (Rook), Turdus merula (Common Blackbird), Turdus pilaris (Fieldfare), Turdus iliacus (Redwing), Oenanthe oenanthe (Northern Wheatear), Phylloscopus trochilus (Willow Warbler), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby's Beaked Whale), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), 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), Larus cachinnans (Yellow-legged Gull), Carduelis cannabina (Common Linnet), Carduelis chloris (European Greenfinch), Circus aeruginosus (Western Marsh Harrier), Corvus corone (Carrion Crow), Corvus corone (Carrion Crow), Corvus corone (Carrion Crow), Erithacus rubecula (European Robin), Ficedula hypoleuca (European Pied Flycatcher), Phoenicurus phoenicurus (Common Redstart), Phylloscopus collybita (Common Chiffchaff), Prunella modularis (Dunnock), Regulus regulus (Goldcrest), Saxicola rubetra (Whinchat), Sylvia atricapilla (Eurasian Blackcap), Turdus philomelos (Song Thrush), Turdus viscivorus (Mistle Thrush), Stercorarius skua (Great Skua), Saxicola torquatus, Delichon urbicum, Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Common Black-headed Gull), Hydrocoloeus minutus (Little Gull), Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Mediterranean Gull), Sternula albifrons (Little Tern), Coloeus monedula (Western Jackdaw), Phylloscopus sibillatrix |
| Subspecies | Larus fuscus graellsii, Larus fuscus fuscus, Larus argentatus argentatus, Branta bernicla bernicla |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1979-06-29 / 2000-09-24 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_427 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_427 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | The founding aim of this project was to merge data from different collaborators and use these to publish an atlas depicting vulnerable concentrations of seabirds to oil pollution. Subsequently, these data have been used for a wide variety of research purposes. The collaboration has also developed and defined common standards in data capture, processing and storage. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_427 |