Bird Pictures Archive
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Date started: 2012-08-08 16:17:27
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BirdPix curates interesting and important photos of birds. There are no particular constraints on what can and cannot be submitted, apart from needing the locality information. It is an excellent place to deposit photos of species which are out of their normal ranges. For atlasers, it can be used to keep the photos of species for which “Out of Range Forms”? (ORFs) were generated. For bird ringers, it can be used to store photos of birds in the hand which were for some reason interesting: for example, pictures showing unusual patterns of wing moult, plumage variation with age and sex, etc. Records submitted to BirdPix will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions.
BIRDPIX Metadata | |
| 1) DATASET CONTACT | |
| Name of Organization/Department | FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town |
| Contact person (Person to contact about the dataset) | Dr Rene Navarro |
| Position | Project Manager |
| Postal Address | FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town |
| Postal code | 7701 |
| City/Town | Rondebosch, Cape Town |
| Province | Western Cape |
| Country | South Africa |
| Telephone | +27 (0)21 650 4751 |
| Cell | |
| Fax | +27 (0)21 650 3301 |
| rene.navarro@uct.ac.za | |
| Website address (url) | http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix |
| 2) DATASET METADATA | |
| Title of dataset | Bird Pictures Archive |
| Brief description (max. 200 words) | BirdPix curates interesting and important photos of birds. There are no particular constraints on what can and cannot be submitted, apart from needing the locality information. It is an excellent place to deposit photos of species which are out of their normal ranges. For atlasers, it can be used to keep the photos of species for which “Out of Range Forms”? (ORFs) were generated. For bird ringers, it can be used to store photos of birds in the hand which were for some reason interesting: for example, pictures showing unusual patterns of wing moult, plumage variation with age and sex, etc. Records submitted to BirdPix will be included as incidental records for mapping bird distributions. |
| Purpose (max. 200 words) | The information consolidated within BirdPix will build up a comprehensive identification guide, as well as mapping the ranges of each species. |
| Begin date (When data collection started) | 2012-08-08 |
| End date for static datasets (When was data collection ended) | on-going |
| 3) DATA QUALITY | |
| Give a brief account of any biases, gaps or errors which may exist in the dataset. | All VM records include coordinates. Species identificatios in the VM collections are done by a panel of expert birders. Photos submitted to the virtual museum are biased to species that are easy to photograph and to areas which are most accessible to the public. |
| 4) ACCESS/USE CONSTRAINTS | |
| How to get a copy of the dataset | Data summaries and distributions maps are available in the project's website. For raw data requests email the contact person. |
| 5) OTHER INFORMATION | |
| Other information about the dataset which may be important. | BirdPix s a joint project started by the Animal Demography Unit, Biological Science, University of Cape Town |
| 6) METADATA AUTHOR | |
| Author name (name of the person who entered the metadata record) | Dr Rene Navarro |
| Author organization | FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town |
| Author position | Information Systems Specialist |
| Author address | FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town |
| Author postal code | 7701 |
| Author city/town | Cape Town |
| Author province | Western Cape |
| Author country | South Africa |
| Author telephone | +27 (0)21 650 4751 |
| Author fax | +27 (0)21 650 3301 |
| Author email | rene.navarro@uct.ac.za |
| Metadata creation date | 31-July-2018 |
| Last update of metadata | 31-July-2018 |
