The dataset contains counts of breeding birds on small Estonian sea islands and islets located in Estonian territorial waters and recorded during national monitoring programme. The overall goal of monitoring is to monitor changes in the composition and abundance of bird species nesting on the small islands

Citation: Estonian Ornithological Society (2019): Breeding avifauna of small Estonian islands and islets, national monitoring 1957-2016

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:31

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=breedingavifaunaestonia

Estonian Ornithological Society
Estonian Ornithological Society

Elen Neito
Tallinn University of Technology

Lara Podkuiko
Tallinn University of Technology

Ivan Kuprijanov

45,408

occurrence records

58,971

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
maximumDepthInMeters	45,408	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	45,408	100.0%
scientificNameID	680	1.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	45,408	100.0%
ON_LAND	40,062	88.2%
NOT_MARINE	9,144	20.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	5,691	12.5%
NO_MATCH	23	0.1%

Breeding avifauna of small Estonian islands and islets, national monitoring 1957-2016

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data