Western Palearctic migratory birds in continental Africa

Isabel Calabuig1

1 Danish Biodiversity Information Facility (DanBIF), Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Isabel Calabuig (ICalabuig@snm.ku.dk)

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Abstract

A database of Western Palearctic migratory birds in continental Africa (excluding surrounding islands and Madagascar). The data is a collection of various published and unpublished sources e.g. museum specimens, grey literature, personal communications, etc. More information (and the database itself) is available at http://192.38.112.111/africamigrants/default.asp

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource.do?r=ds42

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Aves

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Africa
Coordinates: 33°53'60''S and 38°9'36''N Latitude; 18°5'24''W and 53°35'24''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 15. november 1868 - 8. maj 2003

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Western Palearctic migratory birds in continental Africa
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=ds42
Publication date of data: 2013-08-14
Language: English
Licenses of use: GBIF Data Sharing Agreement is applied.  GBIF Data Use Agreement is applied.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-11-07
Hierarchy level: Dataset