Date (Publication)

2010-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier

https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / kingfisher-survey-2010

Purpose

The principal objective of this survey was to quantify the distribution and densities of Kingfisher and other waterways birds throughout the six SAC river systems, and to inform the Special Protection Area designation process, with regards to Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). The Kingfisher is listed in Annex I of the EU Birds Directive.

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

Not planned

GemetInspireTheme

• Species distribution

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

• biodiversity

National Parks and Wildlife Service

• National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, species, kingfisher, alcedo atthis, National Biodiversity Plan, heritage

ISO 3166

• Ireland

Use limitation

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

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. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Reference system identifier

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

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	.

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.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
application/zip	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/Kingfisher_survey_2010_GIS.zip	Download SHP

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
text/pdf	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/Cummins_et_al_2010_Kingfisher_survey.pdf	Publication Document

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

During the Kingfisher survey, a maximum length of 941 km divided into 2,004 sections was covered across the eight river systems, using both boat and walked transect methodologies. Three visits were made to each system in spring 2010, and all waterways bird species seen or heard were recorded, as were the locations of any Kingfisher nest holes deemed active, inactive or unknown.

For a detailed description of the survey methodology please refer to the survey report.

Survey records were supplied to NPWS in an MS Excel file containing six worksheets. In addition to locations of kingfisher nest sites, start and end points of surveyed river sections were given. These start and end points were combined with a river vector file to calculate mid points for each surveyed section. These mid points were overlaid with a 1km Irish Grid vector file to derive records for any sightings.

Records were then uploaded into the NPWS Species database. Spot-checks of record locations against OSI Discovery series mapping were carried out prior to the upload, and Recorder 6 validation rules applied. The records were then exported from the Species database as a polygon shapefile showing squares, with the side lengths of the squares corresponding to the precision in which the records were provided.

Metadata

File identifier

b50c144b-cb8a-4793-8690-2eca7838946c XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2021-04-20T11:38:06Z

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	Author