Description
The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has been conducting avian surveys since 1957, when aerial surveys for trumpeter swans were initiated. Since that time various projects by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff have included or focused on bird observations including audio/visual observations and automated sound recordings. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Bird observations dataset includes more than 500 bird observations from the Kenai Peninsula.
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 515 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Bird Observations (Arctos)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 69043db3-22c3-4853-a7e4-72df876a300c. Kenai National Wildlife Refuge publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Observation; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Entomologist
- P.O. Box 2139
- (907) 262-7021
Geographic Coverage
Biodiversity on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding Kenai Peninsula.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [59.097, -152.073], North East [61.08, -147.854] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Aves |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 69043db3-22c3-4853-a7e4-72df876a300c |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=knwrobs_birds |