Migratory shorebirds (sandpipers and plovers) in Hokkaido

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 282 records.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (2014) Migratory shorebirds in Hokkaido. 282 records, Contributed by Onuma M, Saito K, and Totsu K, Online:http://www.gbif.jp/ipt/archive.do?r=nies_hbirds, under CC-BY-NC 4.0, released on 13/11/2014.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Institute of Genetics, ROIS. 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: 3a849dbd-e36a-480e-81b5-47953428038b.  National Institute of Genetics, ROIS publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Japan.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Migratory shorebird; Stopover points; Mist nets; Occurrence

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Lake Komuke, Lake Utonai, Shunkunitai, Kushiro-shitsugen, Shirahama Akkeshi-cho, Cape Erimo in Hokkaido, Japan.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

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Sampling Methods

Shorebirds were captured using mist nets with authorization from Ministry of the Environment, Japan. The nets were set at night to make them nearly invisible. To ensure the safety for captured birds, the nets were checked every 30 minutes to 2 hours according to weather conditions and temperatures as well as tidal variations. Birds were released as soon as samples were collected. Dates that we opened mist nets were recorded as captured dates. The data set includes two individuals of Scolopax rusticola, which were a dead bird found in Cape Erimo and a weakened bird found in Shirahama Akkeshi-cho.

Method step description:

1. Individual records consisted of 1,737 banded and 37 non-banded birds were organized into species occurrence data using a MySQL database. Same species captured in the same locality at the same event date/period (1 to 3 days) were added up as "individualCount". The individuals banded and recaptured on the same event date/period were counted as 1. Geographic coordinates and uncertainties were calculated using gazetteers such as Google Maps and the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan Map following procedures described in Chapman and Wieczorek (2006). A centroid of a polygon calculated with ArcGIS 10 was used as geographic coordinates for Lake Komuke and Lake Utonai, since polygon data for lakes were available at the National Land Numerical Information download service (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan).

Bibliographic Citations

1. Chapman A.D. and Wieczorek J. (Eds) (2006) Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, 90 pp.
2. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan (2005) National Land Numerical Information Lakes Data, Online:http://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj-e/gml/datalist/KsjTmplt-W09.html, accessed on 16/04/2014.

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