Alternate title

Article 12 Report 2008-2012

Date (Publication)

2015-05-26T00:00:00

Citation identifier

https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / Article-12-birds-directive-reporting-2008-2012-dataset-series

Purpose

Distribution and range maps of species reported as breeding in Ireland, created as part of Ireland's Article 12 Birds Directive reporting, for the period Jan 2008 to Dec 2012.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GemetInspireTheme

• Species Distribution

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

• protection of birds, wildlife protection, biodiversity,habitat, ecology, bird, bird species

National Parks and Wildlife Service

• Special Protection Area, SPA, mapping, birds, Birds Directive, National Parks and Wildlife Service, biodiversity, birds habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan

ISO 3166

• Ireland

Use limitation

Unless otherwise indicated the data included in this dataset series is Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints

License

Other constraints

Unless otherwise indicated the data included in this dataset series is Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment
• Biota

N

S

E

W

Begin date

2008-01-01

End date

2008-12-31

Reference system identifier

EPSG / https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format

Name	Version
Esri shapefile	v10.x

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
application/zip	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/Art12BirdsAllBreedingGridMappinge.zip	Zip file containing shapefile download

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The national grid distributions for the 135 individual species are largely based on the national distributions for these species generated by Birdwatch Ireland for the BirdAtlas2007 to 2011.

Details about the atlas project (and other surveys) are available on the Birdwatch Ireland website: http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/OurWork/ResearchSurveys/Atlas/tabid/487/Default.aspx.

Transect distributions for breeding seabirds from the Birdwatch Ireland Seabird 2000 census, were provided by NBDC. The data supplied was reviewed and edited by NPWS to ensure the full extent of transects were captured. The Seabird 2000 census project is described in detail in the following publication: P. Ian Mitchell, Stephen F. Newton, Norman Ratcliffe and Timothy E. Dunn (Eds.).2004.Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland: results of the Seabird 2000 census (1998 - 2002).Published by T and A.D.Poyser, London.

Breeding wader distributions are from the Bird Atlas, other BWI data and from NPWS data.

All enquires on detailed distributions should first be directed to BirdWatch Ireland. NPWS is in a position solely to release the 10km (and 50km where appropriate) derived grid distribution data.

With regards to the included Range dataset: for the purposes of Article 17 (Habitats Directive) and Article 12 reporting the European Topic Centre (ETC) commissioned a Range Tool**, an ArcGIS extension to generate a standardised grid based range in accordance with Article 17 guidance. The tool "...is based on calculating the distances between the centroids of grid cells and then constructing a series of poly lines and polygons to connect other centroids of grid cells based on the ‘gap distance’ specified. All cells that intersect these polylines and polygons, as well as distribution cells are used to create the range. (Evans & Arvela, 2011)*

A variety of approaches was used to create the range maps for the 135 breeding birds, including use of range tool, modification of range tool outputs and in some cases expert judgement. For some species the range was considered to be the same as the favourable reference range.

*Evans, D. & Arvela, M. (2011) Assessment and reporting under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive. European Topic Centre

**Version 30/08/2012 - Available from: http://bd.eionet.europa.eu/activities/Reporting_Tool/Documents/RangeTool_30082012.zip

All data sources were in Irish Grid.

Metadata

File identifier

a5838f8c-c82e-48c3-ab27-7f321d1364f6 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-12-20T16:31:20

Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version

1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie	Point of contact