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PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992

Dataset homepage

Citation

Hyrenbach, D., F. Huettmann and J. Chardine. 2012. PIROP Northwest Atlantic 1965-1992. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/280) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/udngb7 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-13.

Description

Original provider: Canadian Wildlife Service Dataset credits: Falk Huettmann & John W. Chardine, Canadian Wildlife Service Abstract: The PIROP (Programme Intégré de recherches sur les oiseaux pélagiques) data set, Atlantic subset, consists of geo-referenced vessel-based surveys to monitor pelagic seabirds. Most surveys were carried out by R.G. B. Brown from 'vessels of opportunity' supplied by the Bedford Institute for Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth/Halifax, but many other platforms and observers were used, too. During these surveys observations other than seabirds were also recorded, e.g. Waterfowl, Waterbirds, Songbirds, Raptors, Owls, Sea Mammals, and other sightings of interest (weather, oceanography, vessel activities, bird behaviour, etc.). The data collection period covers all seasons of 1966-1992, with most surveys being conducted between (late) summers of 1975-1987. The survey protocol originally consisted of unlimited width 10min transects, but was changed appr. 1984 towards a Tasker et al. (1984) type of survey (fixed-width strip transect). However, data and results from the PIROP database need to be interpreted as relative, and not absolute, abundance. Purpose: The PIROP data were collected for Canadian seabird monitoring purposes, focussing on the Canadian Atlantic, but also on other areas relevant to Canadian birds such as waters off Peru, off West Africa and off Europe. Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Larus ridibundus (176835) => Chroicocephalus ridibundus (824041) Bonaparte's Gull: Larus philadelphia (176839) => Chroicocephalus philadelphia (824040) Bridled Tern: Sterna anaethetus (176897) => Onychoprion anaethetus (824104) Caspian Tern: Sterna caspia (176924) => Hydroprogne caspia (176935) Franklin's Gull: Larus pipixcan (176838) => Leucophaeus pipixcan (824082) Great Skua: Catharacta skua (176796) => Stercorarius skua (660059) Laughing Gull: Larus atricilla (176837) => Leucophaeus atricilla (824079) Halocyptena microsoma (174648) => Oceanodroma microsoma (174646) Little Gull: Larus minutus (176840) => Hydrocoloeus minutus (824065) Little Tern: Sterna albifrons (176899) => Sternula albifrons (824126) Manx Shearwater: Puffinus puffinus puffinus (174556) => Puffinus puffinus (174555) Royal Tern: Sterna maxima (176922) => Thalasseus maximus (824142) Sandwich Tern: Sterna sandvicensis (176927) => Thalasseus sandvicensis (176932) Catharacta (176795) => Stercorarius (176791) Larus hemprichii (176854) => Ichthyaetus hemprichii (824067) Sooty Tern: Sterna fuscata (176894) => Onychoprion fuscatus (824105) South Polar Skua: Catharacta maccormicki (176801) => Stercorarius maccormicki (660062) Actitis macularia (176612) => Actitis macularius (726049) Pterodroma rostrata (174591) => Pseudobulweria rostrata (562522) Larus sabini (176865) => Xema sabini (176866) Phalaropodidae (176732) => Scolopacidae (176568) Pinnipedia (180614) => Caniformia (552303) [2020-08-18] Atlantic spotted dolphins and Pantropical spotted dolphins were associated with opposite scientific names and ITIS TSNs. This error is fixed. [2015-03-24] Some records had a wrong animal count of zero. The value is replaced with a blank representing species presence only. Data correction: Puffinus creatopus (Pink-footed Shearwater; ITIS: 174547) observed on 1982-08-16 12:00:00 at 53.9000:-55.5000 (id=151664) changed to Procellariidae (Shearwaters; ITIS: 174532) as P. creatopus does not occur in the Atlantic. The PIROP data has effort data which is not as complete as to generate tracklines. It's available upon request and you are strongly encouraged to discuss with the data providers how to handle the effort data. The PIROP data set is a large pool of seabird data, which got extended and modified over the years, e.g. due to changes of objectives and staff. Appr. in 1998 the data were merged by CWS-Dartmouth office with the Manomet Bird Observatory Seabird database, which cover mostly the Gulf of Maine region. The following references refer to the PIROP database and present an overview about the structure, application and value of the data:
  • Brown R.G.B. 1967. Sea Birds off Halifax. Canadian Field-Naturalist 81:276-8.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1970. Fulmar distribution: a Canadian perspective. Ibis 111:44-51.
  • Brown, R.G.B. 1971. PIROP Instruction Manual. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1973. Transatlantic migration of Fulmars from the European Arctic. Canadian Field-Naturalist 87:312-3.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1977. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds Supplement 1 Halifax-Bermuda transects. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1979. Seabirds of the Senegal upwelling and adjacent waters. Ibis 121:283-92.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1984. Seabirds in the Greenland, Barents and Norwegian Seas, February-April 1982. Polar Research 2:1-18.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1986. Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds. Bedford Institute of Oceanography: Candian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1988. The Wing-moult of Fulmars and Shearwaters (Procellariidae) in Canadian Atlantic Waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 102:203-8.
  • Brown R.G.B. 1991.Marine birds and climatic warming in the northwest Atlantic. In: Montevecchi W.A, Gaston A.J., eds. Studies of high-latitude seabirds.1.Behavioural, energetic, and oceanographic aspects of seabird feeding ecology. Volume Occasional Paper Number 1968. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B and D.N. Nettleship 1983. Seabird distribution studies. (Bedford Institute of Oceanography BIO Review '83). Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Brown R.G.B., Nettleship D.N., Germain P, Tull C.E., and Davis T. 1975. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Diamond A.W. 1985. A computer model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern and arctic Canada. Volume Final Report. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.
  • Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B. 1986. Converting PIROP counts of seabirds at sea to absolute densities. Progress Notes No 164
  • Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B.. 1993 Studies of high-latitude seabirds. 3.A model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern Arctic CanadaMontevecchi WA, ed. Occasional Paper Number 77. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa
  • Germain P., Brown R.G.B., and Tull C.E. 1973. Autumn seabird distribution in Canadian Arctic and Greenland waters. Studies on Northern Seabirds. Manuscript Report(No.
  • Huettmann, F. 1997. TraPirp2: SQL PIROP import codes from ASCII Text into dBASE format. ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network), Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
  • Huettmann, F. 1998. An Ecological GIS Research Application for the Northern Atlantic-The PIROP Database Software, Environmental Data Sets and the Role of the Internet/WWW. In: Riekert W.-F. and Tochtermann K. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.17, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 213-217.
  • Huettmann F. 2000a. Environmental Determination of Seabird Distribution in the Northwest Atlantic. Atlantic Cooperative Ecology Wildlife Research Network (ACWERN). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B./Canada
  • Huettmann, F. 2000b. Making use of public large-scale environmental databases from the WWW and a GIS for georeferenced prediction modelling: A research application using Generalized Linear Models, Classification and Regression Trees and Neural Networks. In: Tochtermann, K. and Riekert W.-F. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.24, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 308-312.
  • Huettmann F. 2000. Seabird migration in the Canadian North Atlantic: moulting locations and movement patterns of immatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology 33:1-25.
  • Huettmann, F. and Lock, T. 1997. A new software system for the PIROP database: data flow and an approach for a seabird-depth analysis. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54:518-23.
  • Huettmann, F. and Diamond, A.W. 2001a. Using PCA Scores to classify species communities: an example using seabird classifications at sea. Journal for Applied Statistics 28:843-853.
  • Huettmann F. and Diamond A.W. 2001b. Seabird colony locations and environmental determination of seabird distribution: A spatially explicit seabird breeding model in the Northwest Atlantic. Ecological Modelling 141: 261-298.
  • King, W.B., Watson, G.E. and Gould, P.J. 1967. An application of automatic data processing to the study of the world ocean. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 123, No 3609.
  • Lock A.R., Brown R.G.B., Gerriets S.H. 1994. Gazetteer of Marine Birds in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth NS Canada

Purpose

The PIROP data were collected for Canadian seabird monitoring purposes, focussing on the Canadian Atlantic, but also on other areas relevant to Canadian birds such as waters off Peru, off West Africa and off Europe.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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Sampling

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Method steps

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Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  1. Aves
    common name: Birds rank: class
  2. Gaviiformes
    rank: order
  3. Gavia immer
    common name: Common Loon rank: species
  4. Gavia arctica
    common name: Arctic Loon rank: species
  5. Gavia stellata
    common name: Red-throated Loon rank: species
  6. Podiceps grisegena
    common name: Red-necked Grebe rank: species
  7. Podiceps auritus cornutus
    rank: subspecies
  8. Procellariiformes
    rank: order
  9. Diomedeidae
    rank: family
  10. Procellariidae
    common name: Fulmars rank: family
  11. Procellariidae
    common name: Fulmars rank: family
  12. Fulmarus
    rank: genus
  13. Fulmarus glacialis
    common name: Northern Fulmar rank: species
  14. Puffinus
    rank: genus
  15. Puffinus creatopus
    common name: Pink-footed Shearwater rank: species
  16. Puffinus carneipes
    common name: Flesh-footed Shearwater rank: species
  17. Puffinus gravis
    common name: Great Shearwater rank: species
  18. Puffinus pacificus
    common name: Wedge-tailed Shearwater rank: species
  19. Puffinus griseus
    common name: Sooty Shearwater rank: species
  20. Puffinus tenuirostris
    common name: Short-tailed Shearwater rank: species
  21. Puffinus puffinus
    common name: Manx Shearwater rank: species
  22. Puffinus puffinus
    common name: Manx Shearwater rank: species
  23. Puffinus puffinus
    common name: Manx Shearwater rank: species
  24. Puffinus auricularis
    common name: Manx rank: species
  25. Puffinus assimilis
    common name: Little Shearwater rank: species
  26. Puffinus lherminieri
    common name: Audubon's Shearwater rank: species
  27. Pterodroma
    rank: genus
  28. Pterodroma hasitata
    common name: Black-capped Petrel rank: species
  29. Pterodroma arminjoniana
    common name: Herald Petrel rank: species
  30. Pterodroma arminjoniana
    common name: Herald Petrel rank: species
  31. Pterodroma externa
    common name: Juan Fernandez Petrel rank: species
  32. Pterodroma phaeopygia
    common name: Galapagos Petrel rank: species
  33. Pelagodroma
    common name: White-faced Storm Petrel rank: genus
  34. Pelagodroma marina
    common name: White-faced Storm Petrel rank: species
  35. Oceanodroma
    common name: Dark Storm Petrels rank: genus
  36. Oceanodroma furcata
    common name: Fork-tailed Storm Petrel rank: species
  37. Oceanodroma leucorhoa
    common name: Leach's Storm Petrel rank: species
  38. Oceanodroma castro
    common name: Band-rumped Storm Petrel rank: species
  39. Oceanodroma tethys
    common name: Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel rank: species
  40. Oceanodroma melania
    common name: Black Storm Petrel rank: species
  41. Oceanodroma microsoma
    common name: Least Storm Petrel rank: species
  42. Oceanites oceanicus
    common name: Wilson's Storm Petrel rank: species
  43. Fregetta grallaria
    common name: White-bellied Storm Petrel rank: species
  44. Nesofregetta fuliginosa
    common name: Polynesian Storm Petrel rank: species
  45. Hydrobates pelagicus
    common name: European Storm Petrel rank: species
  46. Phaethon
    rank: genus
  47. Phaethon aethereus
    common name: Red-billed Tropicbird rank: species
  48. Phaethon lepturus
    common name: White-tailed Tropicbird rank: species
  49. Phaethon rubricauda
    common name: Red-tailed Tropicbird rank: species
  50. Pelecanus occidentalis
    common name: Brown Pelican rank: species
  51. Sulidae
    rank: family
  52. Sula
    rank: genus
  53. Sula dactylatra
    common name: Masked Booby rank: species
  54. Sula leucogaster
    common name: Brown Booby rank: species
  55. Sula sula
    common name: Red-footed Booby rank: species
  56. Morus bassanus
    common name: Northern Gannet rank: species
  57. Phalacrocoracidae
    rank: family
  58. Phalacrocorax carbo
    common name: Great Cormorant rank: species
  59. Phalacrocorax auritus
    common name: Double-crested Cormorant rank: species
  60. Phalacrocorax pelagicus
    common name: Pelagic Cormorant rank: species
  61. Phalacrocorax aristotelis
    rank: species
  62. Fregata
    rank: genus
  63. Fregata magnificens
    common name: Magnificent Frigatebird rank: species
  64. Fregata minor
    common name: Great Frigatebird rank: species
  65. Anseriformes
    common name: Ducks rank: order
  66. Anatidae
    common name: Ducks rank: family
  67. Anatidae
    common name: Ducks rank: family
  68. Branta canadensis
    common name: Canada Goose rank: species
  69. Branta bernicla
    common name: Brant rank: species
  70. Anser albifrons
    common name: Greater White-fronted Goose rank: species
  71. Chen caerulescens
    common name: Blue Goose rank: species
  72. Chen caerulescens
    common name: Blue Goose rank: species
  73. Anas platyrhynchos
    common name: Mallard rank: species
  74. Anas rubripes
    common name: American Black Duck rank: species
  75. Anas crecca
    common name: Eurasian Teal rank: species
  76. Aythya marila
    common name: Greater Scaup rank: species
  77. Bucephala
    common name: Goldeneyes rank: genus
  78. Bucephala albeola
    common name: Bufflehead rank: species
  79. Clangula hyemalis
    common name: Long-tailed Duck rank: species
  80. Polysticta stelleri
    common name: Steller's Eider rank: species
  81. Somateria
    common name: Greater Eiders rank: genus
  82. Somateria mollissima
    common name: Common Eider rank: species
  83. Somateria fischeri
    common name: Spectacled Eider rank: species
  84. Melanitta
    common name: Scoters rank: genus
  85. Melanitta
    common name: Scoters rank: genus
  86. Melanitta fusca
    common name: Velvet Scoter rank: species
  87. Melanitta nigra
    common name: Black Scoter rank: species
  88. Lophodytes cucullatus
    common name: Hooded Merganser rank: species
  89. Mergus
    common name: Greater Mergansers rank: genus
  90. Mergus merganser
    common name: Common Merganser rank: species
  91. Mergus serrator
    common name: Red-breasted Merganser rank: species
  92. Charadriiformes
    rank: order
  93. Haematopus
    rank: genus
  94. Charadrius semipalmatus
    common name: Semipalmated Plover rank: species
  95. Charadrius montanus
    common name: Mountain Plover rank: species
  96. Scolopacidae
    rank: family
  97. Scolopacidae
    rank: family
  98. Scolopacidae
    rank: family
  99. Scolopacidae
    rank: family
  100. Tringa
    rank: genus
  101. Tringa melanoleuca
    common name: Greater Yellowlegs rank: species
  102. Tringa flavipes
    common name: Lesser Yellowlegs rank: species
  103. Calidris maritima
    common name: Purple Sandpiper rank: species
  104. Calidris melanotos
    common name: Pectoral Sandpiper rank: species
  105. Calidris fuscicollis
    common name: White-rumped Sandpiper rank: species
  106. Calidris bairdii
    common name: Baird's Sandpiper rank: species
  107. Calidris minutilla
    common name: Least Sandpiper rank: species
  108. Calidris alpina
    common name: Dunlin rank: species
  109. Calidris pusilla
    common name: Semipalmated Sandpiper rank: species
  110. Calidris alba
    common name: Sanderling rank: species
  111. Limnodromus
    rank: genus
  112. Limosa
    rank: genus
  113. Limosa haemastica
    common name: Hudsonian Godwit rank: species
  114. Gallinago gallinago
    common name: Common Snipe rank: species
  115. Phalaropus fulicarius
    common name: Red Phalarope rank: species
  116. Phalaropus lobatus
    common name: Red-necked Phalarope rank: species
  117. Phalaropus tricolor
    common name: Wilson's Phalarope rank: species
  118. Stercorariidae
    rank: family
  119. Stercorarius
    rank: genus
  120. Stercorarius
    rank: genus
  121. Stercorarius pomarinus
    common name: Pomarine Jaeger rank: species
  122. Stercorarius parasiticus
    common name: Parasitic Jaeger rank: species
  123. Stercorarius longicaudus
    common name: Long-tailed Jaeger rank: species
  124. Laridae
    common name: Gulls rank: family
  125. Laridae
    common name: Gulls rank: family
  126. Laridae
    common name: Gulls rank: family
  127. Larus
    rank: genus
  128. Larus hyperboreus
    common name: Glaucous Gull rank: species
  129. Larus glaucoides glaucoides
    rank: subspecies
  130. Larus glaucoides kumlieni
    rank: subspecies
  131. Larus glaucescens
    common name: Glaucous-winged Gull rank: species
  132. Larus marinus
    common name: Great Black-backed Gull rank: species
  133. Larus schistisagus
    common name: Slaty-backed Gull rank: species
  134. Larus occidentalis
    common name: Western Gull rank: species
  135. Larus fuscus
    common name: Lesser Black-backed Gull rank: species
  136. Larus argentatus
    common name: Herring Gull rank: species
  137. Larus thayeri
    common name: Thayer's Gull rank: species
  138. Larus californicus
    common name: California Gull rank: species
  139. Larus delawarensis
    common name: Ring-billed Gull rank: species
  140. Larus canus
    common name: Mew Gull rank: species
  141. Pagophila eburnea
    common name: Ivory Gull rank: species
  142. Xema sabini
    common name: Sabine's Gull rank: species
  143. Rissa tridactyla
    common name: Black-legged Kittiwake rank: species
  144. Sterna
    rank: genus
  145. Sterna forsteri
    common name: Forster's Tern rank: species
  146. Sterna hirundo
    common name: Common Tern rank: species
  147. Sterna paradisaea
    common name: Arctic Tern rank: species
  148. Sterna dougallii
    common name: Roseate Tern rank: species
  149. Sterna repressa
    common name: White-cheeked Tern rank: species
  150. Thalasseus sandvicensis
    common name: Sandwich Tern rank: species
  151. Hydroprogne caspia
    common name: Caspian Tern rank: species
  152. Anous
    rank: genus
  153. Anous stolidus
    common name: Brown Noddy rank: species
  154. Anous tenuirostris
    common name: Sooty Noddy rank: species
  155. Gygis alba
    common name: Angel Tern rank: species
  156. Chlidonias leucopterus
    common name: White-winged Tern rank: species
  157. Chlidonias niger
    common name: Black Tern rank: species
  158. Alca torda
    common name: Razorbill rank: species
  159. Uria
    rank: genus
  160. Uria aalge
    common name: Common Murre rank: species
  161. Uria lomvia
    common name: Thick-billed Murre rank: species
  162. Alle alle
    common name: Dovekie rank: species
  163. Cepphus
    rank: genus
  164. Cepphus grylle
    common name: Black Guillemot rank: species
  165. Cepphus carbo
    common name: Spectacled Guillemot rank: species
  166. Synthliboramphus hypoleucus
    common name: Xantus's Murrelet rank: species
  167. Ptychoramphus aleuticus
    common name: Cassin's Auklet rank: species
  168. Cerorhinca monocerata
    common name: Rhinoceros Auklet rank: species
  169. Fratercula
    rank: genus
  170. Fratercula arctica
    common name: Atlantic Puffin rank: species
  171. Fratercula cirrhata
    common name: Tufted Puffin rank: species
  172. Cetacea
    common name: cetaceans rank: order
  173. Delphinidae
    common name: dolphins rank: family
  174. Tursiops truncatus
    common name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin rank: species
  175. Stenella longirostris
    common name: Spinner Dolphin rank: species
  176. Stenella attenuata
    common name: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin rank: species
  177. Stenella clymene
    common name: Clymene Dolphin rank: species
  178. Delphinus delphis
    common name: Short-beaked Common Dolphin rank: species
  179. Lagenorhynchus
    common name: white-beaked dolphins rank: genus
  180. Lagenorhynchus albirostris
    common name: White-beaked Dolphin rank: species
  181. Lagenorhynchus acutus
    common name: Atlantic White-sided Dolphin rank: species
  182. Grampus griseus
    common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
  183. Pseudorca crassidens
    common name: False Killer Whale rank: species
  184. Orcinus orca
    common name: Killer Whale rank: species
  185. Phocoena phocoena
    common name: Harbor Porpoise rank: species
  186. Physeter macrocephalus
    common name: Sperm Whale rank: species
  187. Kogia breviceps
    common name: Pygmy Sperm Whale rank: species
  188. Hyperoodon ampullatus
    common name: Northern bottlenose whale rank: species
  189. Balaenopteridae
    common name: rorquals rank: family
  190. Balaenoptera acutorostrata
    common name: Minke Whale rank: species
  191. Balaenoptera borealis
    common name: Sei Whale rank: species
  192. Balaenoptera physalus
    common name: Fin Whale rank: species
  193. Balaenoptera musculus
    common name: Blue Whale rank: species
  194. Megaptera novaeangliae
    common name: Humpback Whale rank: species
  195. Eubalaena glacialis
    common name: North Atlantic Right Whale rank: species
  196. Ursus maritimus
    common name: Polar Bear rank: species
  197. Odobenus rosmarus
    common name: Walrus rank: species
  198. Phocidae
    common name: earless seals rank: family
  199. Phoca vitulina
    common name: Harbor Seal rank: species
  200. Halichoerus grypus
    common name: Atlantic gray seal rank: species
  201. Erignathus barbatus
    common name: Bearded Seal rank: species
  202. Cystophora cristata
    common name: Hooded Seal rank: species
  203. Calonectris diomedea
    common name: Cory's Shearwater rank: species
  204. Caniformia
    common name: pinnipeds rank: suborder
  205. Stenella frontalis
    common name: Atlantic Spotted Dolphin rank: species
  206. Globicephala melas
    common name: Long-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
  207. Phoebastria nigripes
    common name: Black-footed Albatross rank: species
  208. Pterodroma cookii
    common name: Cook's Petrel rank: species
  209. Pseudobulweria rostrata
    common name: Tahiti Petrel rank: species
  210. Pusa hispida
    common name: Ringed Seal rank: species
  211. Pagophilus groenlandicus
    common name: Harp Seal rank: species
  212. Stercorarius skua
    common name: Great Skua rank: species
  213. Stercorarius maccormicki
    common name: South Polar Skua rank: species
  214. Actitis macularius
    common name: Spotted Sandpiper rank: species
  215. Hyperoodontidae
    rank: family
  216. Chroicocephalus philadelphia
    common name: Bonaparte's Gull rank: species
  217. Chroicocephalus ridibundus
    common name: Common Black-headed Gull rank: species
  218. Hydrocoloeus minutus
    common name: Little Gull rank: species
  219. Ichthyaetus hemprichii
    common name: Sooty Gull rank: species
  220. Leucophaeus atricilla
    common name: Laughing Gull rank: species
  221. Leucophaeus pipixcan
    common name: Franklin's Gull rank: species
  222. Onychoprion anaethetus
    common name: Bridled Tern rank: species
  223. Onychoprion fuscatus
    common name: Sooty Tern rank: species
  224. Sternula albifrons
    common name: Little Tern rank: species
  225. Thalasseus maximus
    common name: Royal Tern rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Northwest Atlantic,Atlantic Canada,Maritimes (Canada),Northwest Atlantic,Newfoundland Grand Banks,Labrador,Hudson Bay,Western Greenland,Lancaster Sound,Gulf of St. Lawrence,Scotian Shelf,Bay of Fundy,Gulf of Maine,Georges Bank

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

John Chardine
originator
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: john.chardine@ec.gc.ca
Falk Huettmann
originator
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: fhuettmann@alaska.edu
David Hyrenbach
originator
position: Primary contact
Duke University Marine Laboratory
email: khyrenba@u.washington.edu
homepage: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/hyrenbach.html
OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu
OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu
John Chardine
owner
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: john.chardine@ec.gc.ca
Falk Huettmann
owner
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: fhuettmann@alaska.edu
David Hyrenbach
owner
position: Primary contact
Duke University Marine Laboratory
email: khyrenba@u.washington.edu
homepage: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/hyrenbach.html
John Chardine
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: john.chardine@ec.gc.ca
Falk Huettmann
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Canadian Wildlife Service
email: fhuettmann@alaska.edu
David Hyrenbach
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Duke University Marine Laboratory
email: khyrenba@u.washington.edu
homepage: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/hyrenbach.html
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