Description
The birding trips were to forest patches around Anwase village of Kwande Local Government Area in Benue State. No previous bird watching had been carried out in these forests. Our study of the geography of the place tells us that the portion of the Guinea forest which lies to the north of the largely montane upland extending from the Sankwala Mountains in Cross River State via the Obudu Plateau and the Bamenda Highlands in Cameroon to the Mambila Plateau in Taraba State is isolated from the main body of that forest to the south. The birding trips were undertaken between the 29th of December 2019 and 17th February 2023. On these trips, forest birds were observed including Chestnut-winged Starling Onichognathus fulgidus which is well known from the main forest belt in Nigeria but seen for the first time in these forests. A black paradise flycatcher which was similar to the enigmatic bird described by Yakhat Barshep in the African Bird Club Bulletin of 2020 was also seen. On this trip it was discovered that the forest still remaining in the area is fragmentary and under severe threat. It has exceptional ornithological importance with high probability of discovering new species and subspecies. This checklist contains 153 bird species recorded in these forest patches.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 153 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hopkins M, Agboola B, Gurumse W, Ishong J, Okposio E (2023): A checklist of birds of Anwase forest. v1.0. A Rocha Kenya. Dataset/Checklist. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=checklist_birds_anwase&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is A Rocha Kenya. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 624cd288-b646-4294-b121-38c2f8c75dc3. A Rocha Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Checklist; Forest patches; Bird; Anwase; Derivedfromoccurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Board Member
- Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos
- Originator
- Volunteer
- Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos
- Originator
- Conservation Officer
- Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos
- Originator
- Bird Ringer
- P.O.Box 13404, Laminga, Jos-East LGA, Plateau State, 930001, Nigeria.
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Data Analyst
- Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173
- Publisher
- Project Coordinator BID-GBIF
- Programmer
- Technical Liaison GBIF Kenya
Geographic Coverage
The data were collected in forest patches within Anwase.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [6.555, 9.08], North East [6.921, 9.514] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-12-29 / 2023-02-17 |
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Project Data
https://www.gbif.org/project/BID-AF2020-140-REG/raising-the-profile-of-data-for-the-conservation-of-four-forested-african-landscapes#about
| Title | Raising the profile of data for the conservation of four forested African landscapes |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2020-140-REG |
| Funding | Data collection was funded by the African Bird Club. Publication of this dataset was made possible through the BID programme led by GBIF. The project was funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation https://www.gbif.org/project/BID-AF2020-140-REG/raising-the-profile-of-data-for-the-conservation-of-four-forested-african-landscapes |
| Study Area Description | Anwase is characterised by low mountains rising from generally flat lowlands. Forest occurs in patches near the summits of the mountains and in galleries along certain streams. Most land is intensively farmed by a large rural population whose activities pose severe threats to the survival of forest. Coverage was of birds only over the period of the survey. |
| Design Description | The survey was carried out to discover potential sites of biological significance and conservation importance. Eden Creation Care Initiative surveyed these sites with the aim of identifying potential forest sites in which to set up field projects and expand Eden’s reach into the Southern part of Nigeria. A series of preliminary surveys to this site were carried out from the 29th of December 2019 to the 17th of February, 2023. Findings were compiled as a list of bird observations with a short report written about the biological and conservation significance of the site. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
- Originator
- Originator
- Originator
- Originator
- Publisher
- Programmer
Sampling Methods
The occurrence data was collected using a strategic random method where routes were walked slowly, and birds seen and heard recorded, with a significant amount of time spent on identifying rare and unusual bird sightings.
| Study Extent | The data were collected in forest patches within Anwase. |
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| Quality Control | The quality of this data set was assessed and reviewed by the lead author, Mark Hopkins, after using the following tools: Google Earth, IOC World bird list, and Borrow and Demey: Field Guide to birds of West Africa to make sure the data entered are accurate. |
Method step description:
- The following tools were used to review the data set: Google Earth: Used to generate the location of the study area. Open Refine: Used to check for double entries. Encyclopedia of Life and IOC World Bird List: Used to check and confirm the current nomenclature of the birds Borrow and Demey: Birds of western Africa: Used initially to identify the species on the field Global Name resolver: Used to resolve conflicting scientific names. GBIF species name matching: Used to confirm and match up names of the birds with the existing data set in GBIF.
Bibliographic Citations
- Borrow, N. and Demey, R. (2014). Birds of western Africa: Second Edition. Princeton Field Guides, 96.
- Encyclopedia of Life https://eol.org/
- IOC World Bird List v. 11.1 https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/ioc-lists/master-list-2/
- Global Name Resolver https://www.resolver.globalnames.org
- GBIF species name matching https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | This data set contain bird species that illustrates the importance of the site and bird species of conservation concern. When collated with other data, this information will be provided to local communities and also the Government at both State and Federal levels to push for the conservation of these sites. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=checklist_birds_anwase |