Seabird sightings in Ghana and Ivorycoast
Marijke de Boer
Dataset credit
Marijke N. de Boer
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Marijke de Boer |
Wageningen Marine Research, University of Wageningen |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
de Boer, M.N., Saulino, J.T. 2017. Birds recorded offshore Ghana and Côte d\'Ivoire, April–May 2013 and March–May 2014. Bulletin of the African Bird Club. 24 (2), 192-203. 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.
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Abstract
We recorded birds in the waters off Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire during two surveys, totalling 104 days, in April–May 2013 and March–May 2014. Several species were observed for which there are few or no previous records for either country, with Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea and Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris borealis being new for Ghana, and Leach’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous, White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, Cory’s Shearwater and Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus for Côte d’Ivoire. Our sightings suggest that several seabird species considered vagrants or rare visitors may occur more frequently in Ghanaian and Ivorian waters than previously thought.
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Purpose
The main purpose of this study was to contribute information on the distribution and occurrence of seabirds sighted during two geophysical surveys off Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
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Supplemental information
N/A
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References
de Boer, M.N., Saulino, J.T. 2017. Birds recorded offshore Ghana and Côte d\'Ivoire, April–May 2013 and March–May 2014. Bulletin of the African Bird Club. 24 (2), 192-203. de Boer, M.N., Saulino, J.T. 2015. First records of South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) for Ghana in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. Bulletin of the African Bird Club. 22 (1): 74-77.
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Attributes
Overview
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Attributes in dataset
Attribute (table column) | Description |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
date_time | Date and time at local time zone |
datetime_utc | Date and time at UTC |
species | Species name |
sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
number | Group size |
observer | The name of the observer who first sighted the animal |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
country | Country |
notes | Notes |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 2022 |
Seabirds | 150 |
Marine mammals | 0 |
Sea turtles | 0 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 10 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 160 |
Date, Begin | 2013-04-18 |
Date, End | 2014-05-25 |
Temporal prec. | 111110 |
Latitude | 3.90 - 4.92 |
Longitude | -3.58 - -1.76 |
Coord. prec. | 5 decimal digits |
Platform | Boat |
Data type | Animal sighting |
Effort | N/A |
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Traveled (km) | 0 |
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Registered | 2019-10-08 |
Updated | 2019-10-14 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY-NC (Minimum) |
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