Identification

Title

Seabird Nesting Counts (British Isles)

Abstract

This dataset contains counts of breeding seabirds derived from surveys by professional and volunteer ornithologists from within sub-sites defined using 6-figure OS grid references. Counts were derived from a complete census of seabird colonies in Britain and Ireland as part of the Seabird 2000 census. The Seabird 2000 dataset contains data from a full census of all of the breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland. The data was gathered between the years 1999 and 2003 from both coastal and inland colonies. The main objectives of the survey were: to obtain distribution and population information for all 25 species of seabird that regularly breed in the UK and Ireland; to get baseline figures for those species that had been surveyed poorly up to now. The dataset contains points representing counts of nesting seabirds in sub-sites - stretches of coastline showing start and end point of subsites about 1km in length. Also points representing counts of nesting seabirds in sub-sites away from the coast which represent polygons. This dataset is visualised as a mapping layer on Natural England's MAGIC site http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx. For more information about the Seabird 2000 census please see JNCC's website http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/seabird2000.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/3b6ecec5-6492-4bd1-a69b-b0623c9beadc-SNC-BI-2004-201807.zip

name: SNC-BI-2004-201807.zip

Unique resource identifier

code

3b6ecec5-6492-4bd1-a69b-b0623c9beadc

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Seabird Surveys

Seabird Surveys

Seabirds

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-12.998734

East bounding longitude

2.77392

North bounding latitude

61.577172

South bounding latitude

48.303271

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-01-01

End position

2003-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-26

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Counts of breeding seabirds derived from surveys by professional and volunteer ornithologists from within sub-sites defined using 6-figure OS grid references. Source data: Counts derived from a complete census of seabird colonies in Britain and Ireland as part of the Seabird 2000 census, held on an Access database under the NBN data model structure.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: “Contains JNCC data © copyright and database right 2014”.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-07-27

Metadata language