Materials of the web site "Birds of Ukraine"

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Description

The "Birds of Ukraine" website (https://uabirds.org/) was created in the spring of 2015 on the basis of the 10-year-old www.birds.kz website by Askar Issabekov on the initiative of Andrew Simon. The site was created primarily for local birdwatchers. The site provides an opportunity to upload data in the form of photos or videos indicating the species, date and place of observation. The quality of the photo should be of sufficient quality, so that it was possible to clearly identify the bird to the species based on the materials provided. Also, the site has a functionality for holding the big year contest - counting the number of species recorded by an individual observer during the year. The dataset includes 17,596 records of 376 species of birds discovered on the territory of Ukraine.

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 17,596 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:

†Issabekov A, Issabekova A, Burkovskyi O, Vovkotrub Y, Dykan N, †Snitsar O, †Sapuga O, †Kalinskyi V, Kodrul' Y, Kaistro V, Kuzhel' K, Liubchenko S, Panchenko P, Pylypiuk K, Raldugina O, Simon A, Formaniuk O, Chernolev E, Tagila A, Nikulenko V (2024). Materials of the web site "Birds of Ukraine". Version 1.6. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=birdwatchersdatabase&v=1.6

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 44296ffa-7f0c-4d3a-bb24-ee5b37b314ec. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; birds; avifauna; registrations; Ukraine; biodiversity; ornitofauana; records; visual identification; Observation

Contacts

Askar †Issabekov

Originator

Anar Issabekova

Originator

Oleksandr Burkovskyi

Originator

Yurii Vovkotrub

Originator

Nataliia Dykan

Originator

Oleh †Snitsar

Originator

Oleksii †Sapuga

Originator

Viktor †Kalinskyi

Originator

Yurii Kodrul'

Originator

Viacheslav Kaistro

Originator

Kateryna Kuzhel'

Originator

Sergiy Liubchenko

Originator

Pavlo Panchenko

Originator

Kostiantyn Pylypiuk

Originator

Oksana Raldugina

Originator

Andrew Simon

Originator

skazhenijandrew@gmail.com

Oleh Formaniuk

Originator

Eugen Chernolev

Originator

African Tagila

Originator

Vladyslav Nikulenko

Originator

Olexiy Vasyliuk

Point Of Contact

junior researcher

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine

Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15

01030 Kyiv

vasyliuk@gmail.com

Oleksii Marushchak

Custodian Steward

junior researcher

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine

Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15

01030 Kyiv

Kyiv

ecopelobates@gmail.com

+380964882670

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9380-5593

Geographic Coverage

The dataset covers the entire territory of Ukraine.

Bounding Coordinates	South West [44.393, 22.193], North East [52.321, 39.976]

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset consists of records of birds (Aves class) only.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Apodiformes, Bucerotiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, Cuculiformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Otidiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Piciformes, Podicipediformes, Procellariiformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1961-01-01 / 2024-06-10

Sampling Methods

The data was collected by photographing the birds and uploading the data to www.uabirds.org along with the date, time and coordinates of the observation/photo location.

Study Extent	The research was conducted in 2015-2024, including some particular records from earlier years (e.g. 1961), throughout the territory of Ukraine. There are single non-regular observations since 2007. All information is collected by the authors of the report.
Quality Control	The authors are responsible for the accuracy of species identification and data provided alongside with the records.

Method step description:

Species registration.
Species identification.
Georeferencing.
Uploading of the record with metadata to www.uabirds.org.
Downloading of the dataset from the site and its organising in a form of Darwin Core guided table.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	44296ffa-7f0c-4d3a-bb24-ee5b37b314ec
	https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=birdwatchersdatabase