Coordinated Waterbird Counts

Michael Brooks1, Michael Brooks2

1 Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Michael Brooks (michael.brooks@uct.ac.za)

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Resource Citation

Brooks M (2015): Coordinated Waterbird Counts. v1.146. FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. Dataset/Occurrence. http://aduipt.uct.ac.za:8080/ipt-2.3.2/resource?r=cwac&v=1.146

Abstract

The Animal Demography Unit (ADU) launched the Coordinated Waterbird Counts (CWAC) project in 1992 as part South Africas commitment to International waterbird conservation. This is being done by means of a programme of regular mid-summer and mid-winter censuses at a large number of South African wetlands. Regular six-monthly counts are regarded as a minimum standard; however, we do encourage counters to survey their wetlands on a more regular basis as this provides more accurate data. All the counts are conducted by volunteers; people and organisations with a passion for waterbird conservation. It is one of the largest and most successful citizen science programmes in Africa, providing much needed data for waterbird conservation around the world. Currently the project regularly monitors over 400 wetlands around the country, and furthermore curates waterbird data for over 600 sites.

Keywords: Occurrence, Waterbirds, Counts, South Africa, Observation

Data published through GBIF: http://aduipt.uct.ac.za:8080/ipt-2.3.2/resource?r=cwac

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Coordinated Waterbird Count project is active in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. There are plans to extren this coverage to numerous other countries.
Coordinates: 36°12'0''S and 21°6'0''S Latitude; 11°26'60''E and 37°46'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1993

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Coordinated Waterbird Counts
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://aduipt.uct.ac.za:8080/ipt-2.3.2/archive.do?r=cwac
Publication date of data: 2025-04-19
Language: English
Licences of use: This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License</a>.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-11-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset