Nelson City Council avian point-count data, 2015 - 2023

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 13,942 records.

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:

Nelson City Council Avian monitoring data, 2015 - 2023.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nelson City Council. 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: a5f74b25-e5c4-46a7-8676-90dc712ea943.  Nelson City Council publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF New Zealand.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Derivedfromoccurrence

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Reserves of Nelson City Council.

Taxonomic Coverage

All observed birds were identified to species.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Six transects of point-count stations were established in 2015 at sites representing a broad range of distinct vegetation types (e.g., grasslands mixed with exotic trees, podocarp, beech, and indigenous broadleaved forest) and differing in proximity to Nelson’s urban/peri-urban areas. Wetlands and coastal areas were not included. To increase sample size and the diversity of surveyed habitats, three more transects were added during 2022; however, due to its remote location, one of these new transects was not surveyed again in 2023. Transect sites were selected to exemplify key habitats within Nelson reserves surrounding the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary, the South Island’s largest fully fenced, predator-free sanctuary for vulnerable native flora and fauna, and therefore a source of populations for eventual re-establishment of extirpated native species in the Nelson area. Individual transects are comprised of 6-to-13 point-count stations (adjacent stations located approximately 200m apart), the number of stations in each transect depending on the extent of the focal habitat.

Method step description:

1. Point counts were made by a single observer during generally fine weather conditions with little wind, following standardised methods developed by the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Typically, four replicate point counts were conducted per counting station per year, on separate days sometime between late October to early December; however, due to poor weather, for three transects during three different years, only three counts were conducted. Throughout the entire nine-year monitoring period, each counting station was surveyed in total between 33 to 36 times, yielding data from 62-to-95 different counting stations annually and 235-to-369 individual point counts, depending on the number of transects visited, giving a grand total of 2,417 point counts during the nine-year monitoring period.

Additional Metadata