Annotated list of observed birds in W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin, February 2010

Alain Jaures Gbetoho1, Charles Gangnibo2, Jean Cossi Ganglo3

1 University of Abomey-Calavi. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Laboratoire des Sciences Forestières/Université d’Abomey-Calavi (LSF/UAC), BP 393 Cotonou, 229, Calavi, Benin; 2 University of Abomey-Calavi/FSA/Laboratory of Forest Sciences, BP 1493 Abomey-Calavi, 229, Calavi, Benin; 3 Laboratory of Forest Sciences, BP 1493 Abomey-Calavi, Calavi, Benin

Corresponding author(s): Alain Jaures Gbetoho (gljaures@gmail.com), Charles Gangnibo (charlaco2000@yahoo.fr)

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Resource Citation

Gangnibo, C.N., Gbetoho A.J. & Ganglo, C.J., 2016. Annotated list of observed birds in W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin, february 2010.  Laboratory of Forest Sciences, FSA-UAC.

Abstract

Annotated list of birds observed around ponds, waterfalls, rivers and other areas inside W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin from 3 to 17 february 2010. The data were entered from litterature written by Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise and Dowsett J. Robert after an inventory in the two parks. The textual location where each bird was observed was described, and allow the digitization team to georeference the occurrences. The scientific names provided in the book were submitted to ITIS Taxonomic match tool to obtain the accepted name and the parent name. The non matches names were checked online in the Ecncyclopedia of life. The  names, as written by the author were stored in the field ScientificName, while the accepted  name were stored in acceptedNameUsage.

Keywords: Annotated list, birds, W and Pendjari Reserves, Benin

Project details

Project title: Gathering of biodiversity data on bird species for their sustainable management in Benin
Personnel: Charles Nounagnon GANGNIBO

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-benin.gbif.fr/resource?r=bid_gangnibo

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animals
Common names: Birds

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Annotated list of birds observed around ponds, waterfalls, rivers and other areas inside W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin from 3 to 17 february 2010. The data were entered from litterature written by Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise and Dowsett J. Robert after an inventory in the two parks. The textual location where each bird was observed was described, and allow the digitization team to georeference the occurrences. The scientific names provided in the book were submitted to ITIS Taxonomic match tool to obtain the accepted name and the parent name. The non matches names were checked online in the Ecncyclopedia of life. The  names, as written by the author were stored in the field ScientificName, while the accepted  name were stored in acceptedNameUsage.
Coordinates: 10°53'24''N and 12°16'12''N Latitude; 0°57'36''E and 2°55'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: February 3, 2010 - February 17, 2010

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Annotated list of observed birds in W and Pendjari Reserves in Benin, February 2010
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-benin.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=bid_gangnibo
Publication date of data: 2017-02-17
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-11-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Dowsett-Lemarre Françoise & Dowsett J. Robert. Liste annotée des oiseaux observés aux Parcs du W et de la Pendjari (Bénin), février 2010. Dowsett-Lemaire Misc. Resp. 72 (2010). 20 pages.