Description
The dataset contains the results of year-round records or individual observations of 251 species of birds in the territory of western Ukraine, namely Volyn, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi administrative regions. 655% (7240 records) of all observations are located in Volyn and Lviv regions. The observations were carried out in very diverse physical and geographical zones: Volyn Polissia, Male Polissia, Podillia Highlands, the mountain system of the Ukrainian Carpathians, the Transcarpathian Lowlands and others.
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 11,080 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:
Bokotey A, Khymyn M, Horban I, Novak V, Skilskyi I, Shydlovskyi I, Pokrytiuk L, Bundziak P, Pohranychnyi V, Kohut (Kuchynska) I, Boiko H, Shkaran V, Chornenka O, Kaminetskyi L, Buchko V, Hodovanets B, Kozlovskyi R, Shtyrkalo Y, Hlibka I, Bashta A, Lysachuk T, Marushchak M (2025). Birds observation on the western regions of Ukraine in 1963-1994. Version 1.0. West-Ukrainian Ornithological Society. Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=westuacatalogaves1&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is West-Ukrainian Ornithological Society. 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: 20ecc1fb-fed3-46a1-b1fa-d6a33fc66487. West-Ukrainian Ornithological Society publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Ukraine; Aves; birds; ornithofauna; avifauna; biodiversity; West Ukraine; registration cards; catalogue; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
The dataset consists of records from western region of Ukraine: Zakarpattia, Lviv, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Chernivtsi administrative regions.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [47.749, 22.209], North East [51.947, 27.776] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset consists of records of birds (Aves).
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves |
| Order | Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Bucerotiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, Cuculiformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Piciformes, Podicipediformes, Procellariiformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1963-06-10 / 1994-04-14 |
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Project Data
With the help of the project two more publishers from Ukraine were registered. This means that despite rocket attacks, close to the front line, lack of light... Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Melitopol continue to work on publication of scientific archives of the West-Ukrainian Ornithological Society and Azov-Black Sea Ornithological Working Group. Both organizations registered with GBIF and our operators have already handed over the first sets data for publication. And this means that more than 10,000 verified records of bird registrations will appear with open access.
| Title | «Відкрита наука: співпраця орнітологів Львова і Мелітополя для збереження наукової спадщини» |
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| Funding | The project is supported by ЗMIN Foundation. |
| Study Area Description | The project covers the entire territory of Ukraine. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
The vast majority of the material was collected during bird surveys along the shoreline of various reservoirs of both natural and anthropogenic origin. The methods of accounting were chosen depending on the season and weather conditions, the predominant methods were route accounting without fixing the width of the lane and point accounting, in some cases, for rare species, random encounters could be recorded. The coordinates of each meeting were recorded, but not in all cases. In those cases missing the coordinates, the location was estimated based on the description, provided for each single record. In some cases the recorded bird was assigned to a certain territory or to the accounting section and the coordinates of the center of the territory or accounting section were determined. The information provided in the database is not exhaustive. Observations were carried out with the help of optical devices of different multiplicity.
| Study Extent | The dataset represents the results of birds registrations within the territory of western Ukraine for the period starting from 1963 to 1994. The main aim of this dataset is to save the valuable scientific information about birds and make it available for the world's scientific community. This will prevent this data from possible complete destruction and loss in term of war, started by Russian Federation against Ukraine. We are sincerely grateful to NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group" for mutual cooperation and help in preparing of the dataset, extracting and digitalizing of data from the available catalogues. |
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| Quality Control | Conducting of a field surveys and preparing of the catalogues was made by professional ornithologists. The extragtion and digitalization of data from the catalogues was made by professional stall of NGO "Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group" with more than 5 years of experience. The authors of the dataset are fully responsible for the quality of the published data (species identification, georeferencing, other provided data). |
Method step description:
- Conducting of a field surveys and spreading of questionnaires developed by the society.
- Digitalizing and extracting of data from the catalogues.
- Verification (if possible).
- Identification and confirming of species.
- Georeferencing.
- Adding all the collected information to one unified database.
- Organizing of the dataset according to Darwin Core standards.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=westuacatalogaves1 |
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