Bird colony location, use area and type, relative abundance, survey effort, and migration pattern data for marine waterbirds and seabirds used in the creation of Audubon Alaska's Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

• Main Author: Audubon Alaska
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2019
• Subjects: Puffinus tenuirostris; Pardela cola corta, Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffin à bec grêle; Puffinus griseus; Pardela gris, Sooty Shearwater, Puffin fuligineux; Aethia; Least Auklets; Aethia pygmaea; Whiskered Auklet, Starique pygmée; Aethia pusilla; Least Auklet, Starique minuscule; Aethia cristatella; Crested Auklet, Alcuela crestada, Starique cristatelle; Aethia psittacula; Parakeet Auklet, Starique perroquet; Fratercula cirrhata; Tufted Puffin, Macareux huppé; Fratercula corniculata; Horned Puffin, Macareux cornu; Fratercula; Puffins; Uria lomvia; Thick-billed Murre, Guillemot de Brünnich; Uria aalge; Arao común, Common Murre, Guillemot marmette; Uria; Murres; Pagophila eburnea; Ivory Gull, Mouette blanche; Rissa tridactyla; Gaviota pata negra, Black-legged Kittiwake, Mouette tridactyle; Rissa brevirostris; Red-legged Kittiwake, Mouette des brumes; Larus; Gulls, Ivory Gulls, Kittiwakes, Ross' Gulls, Sabine's Gulls; Onychoprion aleuticus; Aleutian Tern, Sterne des Aléoutiennes; Phalaropus fulicarius; Red Phalarope, Falaropo pico grueso, Phalarope à bec large; Phalaropus lobatus; Red-necked Phalarope, Falaropo cuello rojo, Phalarope à bec étroit; Phalaropus; Phalaropes; Phalacrocorax urile; Red-faced Cormorant, Cormoran à face rouge; Gavia; Loons; Gavia stellata; Colimbo menor, Red-throated Loon, Red-throated Diver, Plongeon catmarin; Gavia adamsii; Colimbo de Adams, Yellow-billed Loon, White-billed Diver, Plongeon à bec blanc; Clangula hyemalis; Pato cola larga, Oldsquaw, harelde kakawi, Long-tailed Duck; Polysticta stelleri; Steller's Eider, eider de Steller; Somateria mollissima; Common Eider, eider à duvet; Somateria fischeri; Spectacled Eider; Somateria spectabilis; King Eider, eider à tête grise; Phoebastria albatrus; Short-tailed Albatross, Albatros à queue courte; Procellariidae; Fulmars, Petrels, Shearwaters, fulmars, pétrels; Ardenna griseus; Ardenna tenuirostris; non-breeding area; breeding area; migration pattern; survey effort; important bird areas; planktivore; piscivore; foraging guild; foraging; colony size; colony location; Oceana; Audubon Alaska; Audubon; Chukotka; Russia; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > SPECIES MIGRATION; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > MIGRATORY RATES/ROUTES; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOLOGICAL RECORDS > POPULATION ABUNDANCE; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Canada; Pacific; Blanche; Larga; Gaviota; Cornu; Pétrels; arao común; Beaufort Sea; Black-legged Kittiwake; Chukchi; colimbo de adams; Common Eider; Common Murre; Eider à duvet; eider de steller; fratercula; Guillemot marmette; ivory gull; King Eider; Mouette tridactyle; plongeon à bec blanc; Red Phalarope; Red-necked Phalarope; rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; yellow-billed loon; Alaska; uria
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k325_2019526192657

This dataset contains a variety of spatial data types describing marine waterbirds and seabirds colony locations, use areas and types, relative abundance, survey effort, and migration pattern data in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas. These datasets were used by staff at Audubon Alaska and Oceana to create the 37 maps displayed in 'Chapter 5 - Birds', in the 'Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas'. This dataset contains four zipped archives of spatial data and metadata and two summary files. The zip files are: 1. ArcticMarine2017_Public_Ch5Birds.gdb.zip, containing an ESRI filegeodatabse compiled by Audubon Alaska staff and used to generate the maps in chapter 5 of the Ecological Atlas, 2. ch5_vector-4326, containing csv formatted vector data files along with metadata extracted from the geodatabase, 3. ch5_raster, containing geotiff formatted raster data and metadata used in the maps in the Atlas but not included in the geodatabase, and 4. ch5_shapefiles, containing updated versions of some of the vector or raster layers, as delivered separately by Audubon, and without individual metadata records. The summary files are: 1. audubon_EABCBS_ch5_birds_manifest.txt, listing all file path, size, and md5sum hash value for each file in each of the zip files, 2. audubon_EABCBS_ch5_birds_README.txt, providing basic, human-readable metadata about the dataset, 3. audubon_EABCBS_ch5_birds_data_sources.pdf, listing the data sources used for each map in chapter 5 of the atlas, and 4. audubon_EABCBS_data_sources_appendix.csv, listing the sources used for each spatial synthesis data product created by Audubon Alaska, used to generate the maps in chapter 5, and listed in the data sources pdf. These files contain only the data used in the Atlas and deemed appropriate for public release. Certain data deemed sensitive were not included in these publicly available data archives.