Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive 2008-2012 RN2000

Cláudia Franco; Júlia Almeida; Domingos Leitão; Ana Filipa Sousa; Rita Melo; Duarte Barreto; Pedro Sepúlveda Monteiro; Ana Cristina Cardoso; António Monteiro; Carlos Carrapato; Carlos Cruz; Carlos Godinho; Carlos Pacheco; David Gonçalves; David Rodrigues; Filipe Moniz; Grupo de trabalho em Aves Noturnas GTAN; Inês Catry; Jaime Ramos; João Paulo Silva; Júlio Neto; Luís Costa; Luis Palma; Luís Reino; Lurdes Morais; Manuela Nunes; Nuno Onofre; Paulo Travassos; Pedro Rocha; Programa Marinho; Ricardo Lopes; Ricardo Tomé; Rogério Cangarato; Rui Rufino; Susana Dias; Vitor Encarnação

doi:10.15468/aj2cbe

Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive 2008-2012 RN2000

Citation

Franco C, Almeida J, Leitão D, Sousa A F, Melo R, Barreto D, Sepúlveda Monteiro P, Cardoso A C, Monteiro A, Carrapato C, Cruz C, Godinho C, Pacheco C, Gonçalves D, Rodrigues D, Moniz F, GTAN G D T E A N, Catry I, Ramos J, Silva J P, Neto J, Costa L, Palma L, Reino L, Morais L, Nunes M, Onofre N, Travassos P, Rocha P, Marinho P, Lopes R, Tomé R, Cangarato R, Rufino R, Dias S, Encarnação V, Tomás D (2021). Birds Distribution from the Birds Directive 2008-2012 RN2000. ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/aj2cbe accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The Birds Directive was implemented in 1979. This Directive frames the conservation and management of wild birds in Europe and human interactions with this group. It sets broad objectives and includes the identification and classification of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for the rarest and most vulnerable species, listed in its Appendix I, as well as for all migratory species that regularly occur in the European territory. These species must be subject to special conservation measures relating to their habitat, in order to ensure their survival and reproduction in their range, with special importance being given to the protection of wetlands and particularly those of international importance. Article 12 of the Birds Directive requires Member States to send the Commission, a report on the application of national provisions adopted pursuant to the Directive. This report for the period 2008-2012 was submitted to the European Commission, and will henceforth be prepared every 6 years. In preparing this report, a format approved at the European Union level was used, which includes a general report on the implementation of the Birds Directive, and specific reports containing individual assessments on the status and trend of all relevant species. The report also includes cartographic components (in GIS format) with the national geographic expression in 10 km X 10 km squares relating to the distribution and range areas of the reported breeding species.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

This report will be prepared every 6 years and the Portuguese report covers a large number of species considered to be regularly occurring in the Mainland, Azores and Madeira.

Sampling

All the monitoring schemes are referred in the subsection "2.3 Monotoring schemes (Articles 4(1), 10)" of "2. General information sources on the implementation of the Birds Directive - links to information sources of the Member State" section in the link http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/Converters/run_conversion?file=pt/eu/art12/envuzwp4q/PT_birds_general_report.xml&conv=346&source=remote

Quality Control

The drafting of the national report was coordinated by ICNF with the participation, as regards the Autonomous Regions, of the Parque Natural de São Miguel and the Direcção Regional dos Assuntos do Mar, the Secretaria Regional dos Recursos Naturais dos Açores, and the Direcção Regional de Florestas e Conservação da Natureza and Serviço do Parque Natural da Madeira (see Technical Data Sheet http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/pn/biodiversidade/rn2000/dir-ave-habit/resource/doc/Ficha_tecnica.pdf). In accordance with the guidelines of the European Commission to make the most of efforts and ensure consistency of data with the publication “Birds in Europe” by BirdLife International, the completion of Annex 2 (sections 1 to 5 and 8.1) of this report was coordinated jointly with SPEA , national representative of this organization. It was carried out using a panel of experts who collaborated in the compilation, processing and analysis of the available information (see Consultant Experts http://www.icnf.pt/portal/pn/biodiversidade/rn2000/dir-ave-habit/resource/doc/Especialistas_consultados.pdf). All those involved in the transfer and processing of the information available, and in the production of the report are referred to in the Acknowledgments (http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/pn/biodiversidade/rn2000/dir-ave-habit/resource/doc/Agradecimentos.pdf).

Method steps

Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shapefile format. The data layer was a vector layer containing polygons with various sizes. The following steps were performed: Intersected the layer with the EEA reference grid (10km); Calculated the WKTs for each polygon in the original (EPSG:3035) projection; Calculated the centroids for each polygon in both WGS84 and the original (EPSG:3035) projection.; Calculated the distance of the centroids to the farthest point in the envolving polygon (coordinate accuracy) in both WGS84 and the original (EPSG:3035) projection.; Used the WGS84 centroids to extract the locations from the CAOP2020; Added stateProvince/municipality/locality data for centroids lacking them, by using NNJoin plugin in QGIS; Exported to csv and reinterpreted attributes matching to DwC standard terms.
All initial data was inserted in a specific relational database built specifically for the project, which implemented several quality control methods. In the preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.
Dataset columns: taxonID: speciescode - Unique code for Art 12 report. Four-character Natura 2000 codes are attributed only to species and subspecies. The codes for geographical populations are composed of a Natura 2000 code plus one supplementary character. For non-native populations this supplementary character is 'X' occurrenceRemarks: collection season locationRemarks: Country/region code of the report's origin georeferenceSources: name of the report's layer | shapefile link dynamicProperties: directive information category | information maptype
references: Link1: General report on the implementation of the Birds Directive Link2: parameters related to population size, distribution and respective trends in excel format, for the Mainland, Azores and Madeira, respectively.

Taxonomic Coverages

This dataset is composed by 69151 records of individuals from 209 bird species, 130 genus, 59 families and the following 22 orders: 16 species of Accipitriformes, 7 species of Anseriformes 5 species of Apodiformes 1 species of Bucerotiformes 2 species of Caprimulgiformes 21 species of Charadriiformes 2 species of Ciconiiformes 6 species of Columbiformes 3 species of Coraciiformes 2 species of Cuculiformes 4 species of Falconiformes 3 species of Galliformes 4 species of Gruiformes 2 species of Otidiformes 97 species of Passeriformes 8 species of Pelecaniformes 4 species of Piciformes 2 species of Podicipediformes 9 species of Procellariiformes 1 species of Pteroclidiformes 6 species of Strigiformes 1 species of Suliformes

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Chordata
rank: phylum
Aves
rank: class
Accipitriformes
rank: order
Anseriformes
rank: order
Apodiformes
rank: order
Bucerotiformes
rank: order
Caprimulgiformes
rank: order
Charadriiformes
rank: order
Ciconiiformes
rank: order
Columbiformes
rank: order
Coraciiformes
rank: order
Cuculiformes
rank: order
Falconiformes
rank: order
Galliformes
rank: order
Gruiformes
rank: order
Otidiformes
rank: order
Passeriformes
rank: order
Pelecaniformes
rank: order
Piciformes
rank: order
Podicipediformes
rank: order
Procellariiformes
rank: order
Pteroclidiformes
rank: order
Strigiformes
rank: order
Suliformes
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Portugal mainland, Azores and Madeira islands

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Cláudia Franco
originator
DCB/ICNF
PT

Júlia Almeida
originator
DCB/ICNF

Domingos Leitão
originator
SPEA

Ana Filipa Sousa
originator
Direcção Regional dos Assuntos do Mar

Rita Melo
originator
Parque Natural de São Miguel

Duarte Barreto
originator
Direcção Regional de Florestas e Conservação da Natureza

Pedro Sepúlveda Monteiro
originator
Serviço do Parque Natural da Madeira

Ana Cristina Cardoso
originator

António Monteiro
originator

Carlos Carrapato
originator

Carlos Cruz
originator

Carlos Godinho
originator

Carlos Pacheco
originator

David Gonçalves
originator

David Rodrigues
originator

Filipe Moniz
originator

Grupo de trabalho em Aves Noturnas GTAN
originator
SPEA

Inês Catry
originator

Jaime Ramos
originator

João Paulo Silva
originator

Júlio Neto
originator

Luís Costa
originator
SPEA

Luis Palma
originator

Luís Reino
originator

Lurdes Morais
originator

Manuela Nunes
originator

Nuno Onofre
originator

Paulo Travassos
originator

Pedro Rocha
originator

Programa Marinho
originator
SPEA

Ricardo Lopes
originator

Ricardo Tomé
originator
SPEA

Rogério Cangarato
originator

Rui Rufino
originator

Susana Dias
originator

Vitor Encarnação
originator

Diana Tomás
metadata author
email: dianarstomas@gmail.com

Teresa Pimenta
administrative point of contact
ICNF
Lisbon
PT
email: sig@icnf.pt

Júlia Almeida
administrative point of contact
position: Information System Senior Officer
ICNF
Lisbon
PT

Mário Reis
administrative point of contact
position: Conservation and Monitoring Senior Officer
ICNF