BIRP is a joint project of BirdLife South Africa (BLSA), and the Animal Demography Unit (ADU), based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The basic purpose of BIRP is to compile a comprehensive catalogue of the species of birds which occur and breed in South Africa's many protected areas.

Citation: Animal Demography Unit - The Birds in Reserves Project (BIRP)

Published: December 02, 2020 at 14:09

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=adu_birp

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Michael Brooks
University of Cape Town; Department of Zoology

Ursula von St Ange
AfrOBIS

Marius Wheeler
University of Cape Town; Department of Zoology

23,226

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	23,226	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	23,226	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	23,226	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	23,226	100.0%
scientificNameID	4	0.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	23,226	100.0%
ON_LAND	17,221	74.1%
NOT_MARINE	605	2.6%
NO_MATCH	2	0.0%

Animal Demography Unit - The Birds in Reserves Project (BIRP)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data