Description
The Avifaunal diversity study of Garhwal-Himalayan Range was conducted by Nature Mates Nature Club in May month of year 2022 Lina Chatterjee and the identification and data analysis was by Nature Mates-Nature Club team. This dataset covers the areas of Rudraprayag, Chamoli districts under Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and Bageshwar. The study area covered varied habitats like Oak-Rhododendron forest, Rhododendron rich Subalpine forest, Alpine grassland-Bugyal exposed rock, Subtropical Pine forest, Temperate Oak forest, Maple forest, Subalpine Oak forest, Fir forest, Birch-Rhododendron forest and, Cultivation patches. All the species are identified up to the species level. A total of 103 species of birds are recorded belonging to 76 genera, 38 families and, 12 orders. This dataset also includes the life stage, activity and behavior of the birds observed. Both the male and female of Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), the state bird of Uttarakhand were recorded during the avifaunal diversity study .
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 7 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Basu Roy A, Chatterjee L, Basu Roy R, Samanta T, Besra S, Sengupta N, Barve V (2023). Avifaunal diversity study of Garhwal-Himalayan Range. Version 1.2. Training Organization. Samplingevent dataset. https://training-ipt-a.gbif.org/resource?r=uttarakhand_2022&v=1.2
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Training Organization. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: bb933322-e792-4c4a-94c9-1b443d3cd240. Training Organization publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
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Geographic Coverage
Rudraprayag, Chamoli districts which lie under Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and Bageshwar
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [30.064, 77.981], North East [31.429, 80.552] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the species are identified up to the species level. A total of 103 species of birds are recorded belonging to 76 genera, 38 families and, 12 orders.
| Class | Aves (Bird) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-05-03 / 2022-05-18 |
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Sampling Methods
Random sampling All the observations were recorded during the trekking route where every part of the areas have a equal chances of being chosen, through which we studied the distribution of avian species found in the garhwal-himalaya region Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
| Study Extent | Rudraprayag, Chamoli districts which lie under Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and Bageshwar. |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography
Bibliographic Citations
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org
- IUCN. (2022). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | The purpose of this dataset is to explore the avian diversity of the Garwhal-himalayan range |
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| Alternative Identifiers | bb933322-e792-4c4a-94c9-1b443d3cd240 |
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