Records of birds species digitalized from registration cards and questionnaires stored in collections of Department of ecology and zoology of ESC "Institute of biology and medicine", Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv

Tetiana Tesolkina1, Vitalii Kazannyk2, Oleksii Marushchak3

1 ESC "Institute of Biology and Medicine", Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine; 2 ESC "Institute of Biology and Medicine", Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, , Ukraine; 3 I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Tetiana Tesolkina (ecopelobates@gmail.com)Vitalii Kazannyk

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Resource Citation

Tesolkina T, Kazannyk V, Marushchak O (2023). Records of birds species digitalized from registration cards and questionnaires stored in collections of Department of ecology and zoology of ESC "Institute of biology and medicine", Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv. Version 1.2. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=birdscardsknu1&v=1.2

Abstract

This dataset consists of records of birds that were made in XIX and XX centuries (in particular cases earlier) and are stored now in a form of paper registration cards and questionnaires in collections of Department of ecology and zoology of ESC "Institute of biology and medicine", Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv. Since the records are kept in only a paper form - the data might be lost, especially in terms of war and natural factors. So the dataset is a form of digitalized database, representing the information of observation of certain species of birds n Ukrainian territory in the past few centuries.

Keywords: Occurrence, records, birds, XX century, XIX century, avifauna, ornithofauna, Ukraine, biodiversity, questionnaires, registration cards, ESC "Institute of biology and medicine", observations, Observation

Data published through GBIF: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=birdscardsknu1

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The dataset consists of records of birds only.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Apodiformes, Bucerotiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, Cuculiformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Otidiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Piciformes, Podicipediformes, Pteroclidiformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The dataset covers the entire territory of Ukraine.
Coordinates: 44°20'24''N and 52°25'44.4''N Latitude; 22°8'52.8''E and 40°12'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 10, 1626 - March 14, 1982

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Defining of the approximate locality of the record based on the description in a registration card or questionnaire.
- . 	Georeferencing.
- . 	Creation of dataset according to Darwin Core standards.
Study extent description: This dataset was prepared (the records were digitalized and correctly organized according to Darwin Core standards) and published with the help of the project "Preservation of data on biodiversity of Ukraine during the Russian occupation" funded by "Documenting Ukraine" initiative. The initiative is financed by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (https://www.iwm.at/).
Sampling description: To create the dataset, only reliable records were used (those with clear and understandable description of the place, where the record of bird(s) was made). It means that they contained sufficiently accurate information about the find so that the locations could be identified geographically. We identified the registration places and determined their geographical coordinates using Google Earth Pro and QGis v. 2.18 software.
Species identification was made by the observers and is indicated on the card. No additional photo-material was provided.
Quality control description: The authors of the dataset are responsible for the quality of data interpreted and highlighted in the dataset.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Records of birds species digitalized from registration cards and questionnaires stored in collections of Department of ecology and zoology of ESC "Institute of biology and medicine", Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=birdscardsknu1
Publication date of data: 2023-11-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-01-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset