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    Positive Detection Breeding Bird Survey Route Stops - USGS [ds2800]

    Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

    To create this dataset, a few of the datasets available online were combined. The "50 stop" data and the "species list" were used and joined with a shapefile of approximate stop locations generated by CDFW staff. Negative detections were recorded, but removed from this dataset due to size constraints. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Each year during the height of the avian breeding season, June for most of the U.S. and Canada, participants skilled in avian identification collect bird population data along roadside survey routes. Each survey route is approximately 24.5 miles long with stops situated ideally 0.5 mile apart. At each stop, a 3 minute point count is conducted. During the count, every bird seen within a 0.25 mile radius or heard is recorded. Surveys start one-half hour before local sunrise and take about 5 hours to complete. Over 4100 survey routes are located across the continental U.S. and Canada.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
    Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Maintainer
    Identifier dbe76669-82f1-4813-a0a8-6908ec09cc28
    Data First Published 2020-01-23T20:12:25.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2021-05-20T21:11:38.337Z
    Category Natural Resources, Water
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id c814cb5f-2ff2-49dd-8602-a30ce2340e58
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 762ea96ef0c1f99cd86a6708d5eda9a127fa6c0a72e2a560c406c27b1bc62be0
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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