Name:
Winter Bird Census
Name (fi):
Talvilintulaskenta
Name (sv):
Vinterfågeltaxeringar
Type:
Monitoring scheme observations
Description:
Censuses cover all observed bird species. Annual counts have been done in the winter time since 1957. Methodology is explained in link:
http://www.luomus.fi/seurannat/methods.htm
Description (fi):
Laskennat toteutetaan vuosittain talvisin ja ne kattavat kaikki lintulajit. Laskenta-aineisto alkaa talvesta 1956/57 ja vuodesta 1976 lähtien laskennat on toteutettu kolme kertaa talvessa (marraskuu, vuodenvaihde, helmi-maaliskuu). Laskentojen menetelmät ja lisätietoja löytyy osoitteesta:
http://www.luomus.fi/seurannat/talvilintulaskennat/index.htm
Description (sv):
Vinterfågeltaxeringarna utreder vinterfågelbeståndets utbredning och riklighet i olika levnadsmiljöer och i olika delar av landet.
Taxonomic coverage:
Aves, Mammalia
Temporal coverage:
1956-
Coverage basis:
Finland, Winter season, November - March, since winter 1956/57. Birds, but from c. 2005 also mammals.
Geographic coverage:
Finland
Methods:
In English: https://www.luomus.fi/en/bird-monitoring
In Finnish: https://www.luomus.fi/fi/talvilintulaskennat
License for use:
Creative Commons Attribution
Download request handler:
MA.21
Size (approx.):
1100000
% digitized (approx.):
100
Location of collection:
Finnish Museum of Natural History
Person responsible:
Lehikoinen, Aleksi
Location of data and backups:
Finnish Museum of Natural History
Citation recommendation:
Fraixedas Nuñez, S., Lehikoinen, A., Lindén, A. 2015: Impact of climate and land change on wintering bird populations in Finland. — Journal of Avian Biology 46: 63–72.
Data quality:
3 star
Language:
finnish
Status of this metadata:
satisfactory – could be improved
Contact email:
aleksi.lehikoinen@helsinki.fi
Data quality description:
From year 2019, 390 documents are incorrectly missing MY.taxonCensus: aves -key/value, which tell that all observed birds have been recorded during the census.
Collection quality:
Expert hobbyists / expert curated
Allowed for DW statistics:
true
Share to GBIF:
HR.39
Share to FEO:
true
Bounding box latitude min (WGS84):
59.780592
Bounding box latitude max (WGS84):
69.962648
Bounding box longitude min (WGS84):
17.358436
Bounding box longitude max (WGS84):
31.424182