8f748722db132bb49849f38772aec4f5 English dataset Catherine Scott Natural England Marine Advisor +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk pointOfContact 2021-05-27 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 2009-2010 Marinelife - Effort bird sightings during survey work 2010-12-31 publication 2010-12-31 creation 2010-12-31 revision NETGAIN0010 Data contains effort sightings of sea birds recorded during survey work conducted by Marinelife. Sightings are plotted using latitude and longitude recorded from a GPS. Dr. Colin D (Marinelife) MacLeod DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Marinelife dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Dr. Colin D (Marinelife) MacLeod DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Marinelife dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian unknown Geographic Information System Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Biodiversity GEMET 2011-07-06 creation Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Copyright otherRestrictions Free on request English biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Southern North Sea -1.6285 -0.7930 55.0123 55.6631 2009-01-01 2010-12-31 Netgain (2011) Final Recommendations Submission to Natural England & JNCC. Report to Natural England. Dr. Colin D (Marinelife) MacLeod DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data Marinelife dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor dataset Data layer received was missing spatial information. It was defined as WGS-84. The attribute table contains the following fields BIRD_ID: This is a unique identifier for each bird sighting. SPECIES: Common English name for the species. AGE: The age class of the bird BOX: This records whether the sighting was within the survey box. NUMBER: Number of birds in the group. DISTANCE_B: The distance band within which the sighting was recorded. BEHAVIOUR1: The behaviour of the birds. F – Feeding/foraging; R – Resting; S - . SNAPSHOT: Whether birds were recorded during a ‘snapshot’ count. BEHAVIOUR2: TRIP_NO: The trip number an individual bird was recorded on. TRANSECT_N: The transect number (if on transect) during which the sighting was recorded. If blank, the sighting occurred while travelling between transects. LEG_NO: The leg number during which the sightings was recorded. This starts with 1 for the first leg of the first survey in November and continues until the last leg of the final survey in March. LATITUDE: Latitude in decimal degrees. LONGITUDE: Longitude in decimal degrees. DATE: The date on which the survey was conducted.