MMS CDAS Seabird Colonies
Minerals Management Service

Dataset credit

Minerals Management Service (MMS)
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	David Hyrenbach	Duke University Marine Laboratory
Data entry	Ei Fujioka	Duke University

Citation

Hyrenbach, D. 2013. MMS CDAS Seabird Colonies. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/271) on yyyy-mm-dd.

Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.

Abstract

This catalog of seabird colonies along the west coast of the United States during the year 1980, was compiled by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and distributed as part of the Computerized Database Analysis System (CDAS) version 2.1 CD. This CD was prepared by Glenn Ford and Janet Casey from the Ecological Consulting Inc. (Portland, Oregon), and published in March 2001. The identity and number of seabirds breeding at each site, identified by a unique name and 6-digit code, is listed using two record types: presence/absence (P) and population abundance (A). Because these are annual counts, they are tagged with a unique time/date stamp of noon, July 1, 1980.

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

N/A

References

Pitman, R.L., J. Hodder, M.R. Graybill, and D.H. Varoujean. 1979. Catalog of Oregon seabird colonies. Report for U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Sowls, A.L., A.R. DeGange, J.W. Nelson, and G.S. Lester. 1980. Catalog of California seabird colonies. Report for U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Speich, S.M. and T.R. Wahl. 1986. Catalog of Washington seabird colonies. Report for U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noted below.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
survey
lineno
colony_id
rectype
year	Year of observation
date	Observed date
time	Time of observation
lat	Latitude of observation
lon	Longitude of observation
species	Species observed
comu
pigu
caau
rhau
xamu
tupu
lesp
assp
ftsp
blsp
brpe
wegu
gwgu
hegu
dcco
brco
peco
unco
bloy
lete
fote
cate
elte
blsk
total
excluded
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)

OBIS-SEAMAP ID	271
Seabirds	1,017
Marine mammals	0
Sea turtles	0
Rays and sharks	0
Other species	126
Non spatial	0
Non species	-704
Total	439
Date, Begin	1980-07-01
Date, End	1980-07-01
Temporal prec.	100000
Latitude	32.56 - 48.39
Longitude	-124.76 - -117.11
Coord. prec.	5 decimal digits
Platform	Shore
Data type	Habitat survey
Effort	N/A
Registered	2005-02-24
Updated	2013-01-24
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY (All)
Also available from	iOBIS
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MMS CDAS Seabird Colonies Minerals Management Service