Materials of the web site "Birds of Ukraine"

Occurrence
Version 1.6 published by Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) on Sept 16, 2024 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)
Publication date:
16 September 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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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

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  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
KZ
Anar Issabekova
  • Originator
KZ
Oleksandr Burkovskyi
  • Originator
UA
Yurii Vovkotrub
  • Originator
UA
Nataliia Dykan
  • Originator
UA
Oleh †Snitsar
  • Originator
UA
Oleksii †Sapuga
  • Originator
UA
Viktor †Kalinskyi
  • Originator
UA
Yurii Kodrul'
  • Originator
UA
Viacheslav Kaistro
  • Originator
UA
Kateryna Kuzhel'
  • Originator
UA
Sergiy Liubchenko
  • Originator
UA
Pavlo Panchenko
  • Originator
UA
Kostiantyn Pylypiuk
  • Originator
UA
Oksana Raldugina
  • Originator
UA
Andrew Simon
Oleh Formaniuk
  • Originator
UA
Eugen Chernolev
  • Originator
UA
African Tagila
  • Originator
UA
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
UA
Oleksii Marushchak
  • Custodian Steward
junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
Kyiv
UA
+380964882670

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:

  1. Species registration.
  2. Species identification.
  3. Georeferencing.
  4. Uploading of the record with metadata to www.uabirds.org.
  5. 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