EDI Data Portal
This dataset is associated with BES Bird Monitoring
Bird Monitoring Project:
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The BES Bird Monitoring Project is a breeding bird survey designed to find out what birds are found in the breeding season in Baltimore and where. Our monitoring efforts will show associations among block group socioeconomic variables, land cover, land use, and habitat features with breeding bird abundance, to provide information for land managers on possible consequences of land use changes on bird communities.
A distinguishing feature of the bird monitoring at BES LTER, relative to other urban bird work, is the capacity for long-term monitoring of features at multiple scales through links to other parts of the project. Different processes influence habitat for birds at different scales, e.g. ongoing household level human decision-making at lot scale vs. block or neighborhood scale abandonment/re-development. Our project seeks to understand how these processes impact bird occurrence, abundance, and composition differ at the lot, block and neighborhood scale.
The database consists of four tables. Sites, Surveys, Taxalist, and Birds. Sites records thje sites and their characteristics. Surveys describe the actual outings or sampling sessions. They describe the weather, the temperature, the sites visited. Taxalist provides the integration of speciaies abbreviations and common names, and Birds describes the actual sightings, linking to the other three tables.
Attribute information:
The tables form a set.
Here are the fields and relationship information:
Surveys:
site_id FK->Sites[site_id]
survey_id
survey_date
time_start
time_end
observer
wind_speed
wind_dir
air_temp
temp_units
cloud_cover
notes
Sites:
site_id
park_code
park_district
park_name
point_code
point_location
park_acreage
Taxalist:
species_id
common_name
Birds:
survey_id FK->surveys[survey_id]
site_id FK->surveys[site_id]
species_id FK->taxalist[species_id]
distance
bird_count
notes
seen
heard
direction
time_class
