Dataset: Birds from the Northern California Current observed from the R/V New Horizon during NH0005 and NH0007 in the Northeast Pacific in 2000 (NEP project)

GLOBEC NEP Northern California Current Bird Data
R/V New Horizon cruises NH0005 and 0007

NOTES:
(1) Please see companion file named 'metabirds', which is supporting data for Bird Observations.

(2) The following documentation is extracted from:
David G. Ainley, Larry B. Spear, Cynthia T. Tynan, John A. Barth, Stephen D. Pierce, R. Glenn Ford and Timothy J. Cowles, 2005. Physical and biological variables affecting seabird distributions during the upwelling season of the northern California Current. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 52, Issues 1-2, January 2005, Pages 123-143

As a part of the GLOBEC-Northeast Pacific project, we investigated variation in the abundance of marine birds in the context of biological and physical habitat conditions in the northern portion of the California Current System (CCS) during cruises during the upwelling season 2000. Continuous surveys of seabirds were conducted simultaneously in June (onset of upwelling) and August (mature phase of upwelling).

(3) Caution. Wind speed and direction may not be corrected for ship motion.

(4) Additional documentation, in the form of references, was provided by Dr. Ainley.

L.B. Spear, N. Nur & D.G. Ainley. 1992. Estimating absolute densities of flying seabirds using analyses of relative movement. Auk 109:385-389.
L.B. Spear & D.G. Ainley. 1997. Flight behaviour of seabirds in relation to wind direction and wing morphology. Ibis 139: 221-233.
L.B. Spear & D.G. Ainley. 1997. Flight speed of seabirds in relation to wind speed and direction. Ibis 139: 234-251.
L.B. Spear, D.G. Ainley, B.D. Hardesty, S.N.G. Howell & S.G. Webb. 2004. Reducing biases affecting at-sea surveys of seabirds: use of multiple observer teams. Marine Ornithology 32: 147-157.

 

Species Codes

Code	Description
AKCA	Cassin's Auklet
AKPA	Parakeet Auklet
AKRH	Rhinoceros Auklet
ALBF	Black-footed Albatross
ALLA	Laysan Albatross
COBR	Brandt's Cormorant
COPE	Pelagic Cormorant
FUNO	Northern Fulmar
GUCA	California Gull
GUGW	Glaucous-winged Gull
GUHR	Heermann's Gull
GUPI	Pigeon Guillemot
GURB	Ring-bill Gull
GUSA	Sabine's Gull
GUWE	Western Gull
JALT	Long-tailed Jaeger
JAPA	Parasitic Jaeger
JAPO	Pomarine Jaeger
LOAR	Pacific Loon
LOCO	Common Loon
MUCO	Common Murre
MUMA	Marbled Murrelet
MUXA	Xantus' Murrelet
PELB	Brown Pelican
PHNO	Red-necked Phalarope
PHRE	Red Phalarope
SHFF	Flesh-footed Shearwater
SHPF	Pink-footed Shearwater
SHSO	Sooty Shearwater
SKMA	South Polar Skua
STFT	Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
STLE	Leach's Storm-Petrel
TEAR	Arctic Tern

 

Behavior Codes

Code	Description
1	Flying directionally
2	Sitting on water
3	Feeding

Any questions about the data, please contact the PIs:
David G. Ainley: dainley@penguinscience.com
Cyndy Tynan: ctynan@whoi.edu

updated Sept 08. 2005; gfh