Birds - Breeding Survey Routes [ds60]

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bird, breeding bird survey, breeding bird survey analysis, bird counts, bird occurrences, bird lists, annual, environment, biota, trend, survey, California, land bird


Summary

These data sets are designed to provide public access to analysis results from BBS data. A statement regarding the elements of the website, and a general discussion of the methods, is available at http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/bbs.html . Analysis of survey data can be controversial, and any user of the information should recognize that alternative approaches exist. These programs provide results based on methods that have been accepted in the published literature for many years, but also provide alternative approaches to analysis. Users also have access to actual data from the survey, at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/ . Standard disclaimers for use of information are also provided http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/disclaim.html .

Description

Map products on this website consist of a series of shape- and data-files that summarize population change and relative abundance for North American Birds from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Metadata for the BBS provides specific information on the analysis programs and summary information. Metadata on digitized maps and route paths are described here.

Credits

Use limitations

None. Acknowledgment of the U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Extent

West -124.498553 East -113.503482
North 42.059826 South 32.431089

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:150,000,000

ArcGIS Metadata

Topics and Keywords

Themes or categories of the resource biota, environment


* Content type Downloadable Data
Export to FGDC CSDGM XML format as Resource Description No

Place keywords California

Theme keywords bird, breeding bird survey, breeding bird survey analysis, bird counts, bird occurrences, bird lists, annual, environment, biota, trend, survey, survey, land bird

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Citation

Title Birds - Breeding Survey Routes [ds60]
Publication date 2012-01-0100:00:00


Presentation formats * digital map


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Citation Contacts

Responsible party
Organization's name USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Contact's role originator


Responsible party
Individual's name John R. Sauer
Organization's name USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice 301-497-5662

Address
Type postal
Delivery point 12100 Beech Forest Road
City Laurel
Administrative area Marryland
Postal code 20708-4039
Country US
e-mail address jrsauer@usgs.gov

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Resource Details

Dataset languages * English(UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Spatial representation type * vector


Supplemental information
Information regarding the function of individual elements of the website are available throughout the site, and include help files.
* Processing environment Microsoft Windows 10 Version 10.0 (Build 19045) ; Esri ArcGIS 13.1.0.41833


ArcGIS item properties
* Name ds60
* Size 1.558
* Location file://\\geodata.\\BIOSOnline\Refresh\TODOData\BIOSOnlineData.gdb
* Access protocol Local Area Network

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Extents

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type Extent used for searching
* West longitude -124.498553
* East longitude -113.503482
* North latitude 42.059826
* South latitude 32.431089
* Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system
* West longitude -373400.609100
* East longitude 539681.079200
* South latitude -603706.757300
* North latitude 449060.892200
* Extent contains the resource Yes

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Resource Maintenance

Resource maintenance
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Resource Constraints

Constraints
Limitations of use

None. Acknowledgment of the U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.


Constraints
Limitations of use

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data be directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey and USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein.


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Spatial Reference

ArcGIS coordinate system
* Type Projected
* Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983
* Projection NAD_1983_California_Teale_Albers
* Coordinate reference details
Projected coordinate system
Well-known identifier 3310
X origin -16909700
Y origin -8597000
XY scale 10000
Z origin -100000
Z scale 10000
M origin -100000
M scale 10000
XY tolerance 0.001
Z tolerance 0.001
M tolerance 0.001
High precision true
Latest well-known identifier 3310
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Reference system identifier
* Value 3310
* Codespace EPSG
* Version 6.8(9.2.0)


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Spatial Data Properties

Vector
* Level of topology for this dataset geometry only


Geometric objects
Feature class name ds60
* Object type composite
* Object count 0

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ArcGIS Feature Class Properties
Feature class name ds60
* Feature type Simple
* Geometry type Polyline
* Has topology FALSE
* Feature count 0
* Spatial index TRUE
* Linear referencing FALSE

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Data Quality

Scope of quality information
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Data quality report
Evaluation method
Survey Route paths for the North American Breeding Bird Survey were digitized from road coverages derived from the Census Bureau TIGER database (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html). State boundaries and Bird Conservation Region boundaries on maps are derived from ESRI mapping products and Mays made available from Bird Studies Canada ( http://www.birdscanada.org/research/gislab/?targetpg=bcr) . Referenced websites contain additional metadata on boundary and route path geographic data.


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Lineage

Lineage statement
Methodology: Methodology_Type: In the present version of this website, bird data are not provided for association with the route shape file. Data are available for download from the Breeding Bird Survey Operations Website ( http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/) . Recommended analyses of data and summaries we provided from earlier analyses are described here. These analyses consist of summary of data at scale of individual survey routes. Relative abundance is indexed by simple means of data for each species of routes between various years, as described on the primary website. Trend analysis of change on the routes was accomplished using Poisson regression methods over all years the routes were surveyed during the interval 1966 - present year of analysis, and observer differences were acoommodated using covariates. For route-level summaries, those data were summarized by species, and data are supplied to users as text files that can be associated with Arc View shape files. Geographic smoothing for polygon-based maps is conducted using inverse distancing of route data. For these analyses, a fortran program was written to conduct inverse-distancing of the route-level trends described above, and the centerpoint of the polygons was used as the location of the polygon in the analysis. See Sauer, Pendleton, and Orsillo (1995) for details on this approach to geographic smoothing of data. These data were also summarized by species, and data are supplied to users as text files that can be associated with Arc View shape files. Methodology_Description: ../trendin.html Method has been documented in numerous publications. These publications describe the methods: Sauer, J. R., and S. Droege, editors. 1990. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Geissler, P. H., and J. R. Sauer. 1990. Topics in route regression analysis. Pgs 5457 in J. R. Sauer and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Sauer, J. R., and P. H. Geissler. 1990. Annual indices from route regression analyses. Pgs 5862 in J. R. Sauer and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends. U. S. Fish. Wildl. Serv., Biol. Rept. 90(1). Sauer, J. R., R. J. Barker, and P.H. Geissler. 1994. Statistical aspects of modeling population change from population size data. Pages 451466 in R. J. Kendall and T. E. Lacher, Jr., eds., Wildlife toxicology and population modeling: integrated studies of agroecosystems, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl. Sauer, J. R., Peterjohn, B. G., and Link, W. A. 1994. Observer differences in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 111:5062. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1994. Estimating equations estimates of trends. Bird Populations 2:2332. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1995. Estimation of empirical mixing distributions in summary analyses. Biometrics 51:810821. Sauer, J. R., G. W. Pendleton, and S. Orsillo. 1995. Mapping of bird distributions from point count surveys. Pages 151160 in C. J. Ralph, J. R. Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSWGTR149. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1996. Extremes in ecology: avoiding the misleading effects of sampling variation in summary analyses. Ecology 77:1633-1640. Kendall, W. L., B. G. Peterjohn, and J. R. Sauer. 1996. First-time observer effects in the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Auk 113:823-829. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997. New Approaches to the Analysis of Population Trends in Land Birds" A Comment on Statistical Methods. Ecology 78:2632-2634.. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer. 1997. Estimation of population trajectories from count data. Biometrics 53:63-72. Link, W. A., and J. R. Sauer 1998. Estimating population change from count data: application to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Ecological Applications 8:258268.
Process step
When the process occurred 2004-01-0100:00:00
Description
Analyses were conducted on a Sun workstation using FORTRAN programs.


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Process step
When the process occurred 2016-09-1300:00:00
Description
Dissolved on "Route", restructured table. - California Department of Fish and Wildlife, BIOS


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Geoprocessing history

Process
Process name
Date 2023-09-2108:08:16
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Date 2023-10-0412:27:59
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Date 2023-10-0412:28:17
Tool location c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\ArcToolbox\toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\Project
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Process
Date 2023-10-0412:28:39
Tool location c:\program files\arcgis\pro\Resources\ArcToolbox\toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\Rename
Command issued
Include in lineage when exporting metadata No


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Distribution

Distribution format
* Name File Geodatabase Feature Class


Transfer options
* Transfer size 1.558


Online source
Location https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS
Function performed information

Online source
Location https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/001_099/ds060.zip
Function performed download

Online source
Location http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/bbs.html
Function performed information

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Fields

Details for object ds60
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* Row count 0


Field OBJECTID
* Alias OBJECTID
* Data type OID
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Internal feature number.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


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Field Shape
* Alias Shape
* Data type Geometry
* Width 0
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Feature geometry.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.


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Field Route
* Alias Route
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The route number consists of the 1- or 2-digit State ID code followed by the 3 digit route ID. ID Number for States and Provinces: 2 Alabama 3 Alaska 4 Alberta 6 Arizona 7 Arkansas 11 British Columbia 14 California 17 Colorado 18 Connecticut 21 Delaware 22 District of Columbia 25 Florida 27 Georgia 33 Idaho 34 Illinois 35 Indiana 36 Iowa 38 Kansas 39 Kentucky 42 Louisiana 43 Northwest Territories 44 Maine 45 Manitoba 46 Maryland 47 Massachusetts 49 Michigan 50 Minnesota 51 Mississippi 52 Missouri 53 Montana 54 Nebraska 55 Nevada 56 New Brunswick 57 Newfoundland 58 New Hampshire 59 New Jersey 60 New Mexico 61 New York 63 North Carolina 64 North Dakota 65 Nova Scotia 66 Ohio 67 Oklahoma 68 Ontario 69 Oregon 72 Pennsylvania 75 Prince Edward Island 76 Quebec 77 Rhode Island 79 Saskatchewan 80 South Carolina 81 South Dakota 82 Tennessee 83 Texas 85 Utah 87 Vermont 88 Virginia 89 Washington 90 West Virginia 91 Wisconsin 92 Wyoming 93 Yukon Territories
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Field Route_Name
* Alias Route_Name
* Data type String
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* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Route name,
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Field Date_Added
* Alias Date_Added
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Date the route was added.
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Field Length
* Alias Length
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Route length in meters.
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Field Shape_Length
* Alias Shape_Length
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Length of feature in internal units.
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.


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Metadata Details

* Metadata language English(UNITED STATES)
* Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Scope of the data described by the metadata * dataset
Scope name * dataset


* Last update 2023-10-04


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS1.0
Metadata style FGDC CSDGM Metadata
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2023-10-0412:28:11
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2023-10-0412:27:57


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2023-10-0412:27:57

Item location history
Item copied or moved 2016-09-1315:19:15
From P:\WorkArea\ds001-099\060-BreedingBirdSurveyRoutes\v2\v2_work\ds60_4
To \\geodata.\\ds001-099\060-BreedingBirdSurveyRoutes\v2\v2_final\ds60_4


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Metadata Contacts

Metadata contact
Individual's name John R. Sauer
Organization's name USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice 301-497-5662

Address
Type postal
Delivery point 12100 Beech Forest Road
City Laurel
Administrative area Marryland
Postal code 20708-4039
Country US
e-mail address jrsauer@usgs.gov

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