Occurrence data of Birds of the Upper Tana Basin, Kenya

Peter Njoroge1, Edson Mlamba1, Alex Mutati2, Esther Mwangi1, Lawrence Monda1

1 National Museums of Kenya, Museum Hill Road, P. O. Box 40658 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya; 2 National Museums of Kenya, Museum Hill Road, P. O. Box 40658 - 00100, Nairobi

Corresponding author(s): Peter Njoroge (pnjoroge@museums.or.ke)Edson Mlamba (edmlamba@gmail.com)Alex Mutati (alekyzmutati@gmail.com)Esther Mwangi (ewmwangi@museums.or.ke)

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Resource Citation

Njoroge P, Mlamba E, Mutati A, Mwangi E (2019): Occurrence data of Birds of the Upper Tana Basin, Kenya. v1.0. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=uppertana_birds&v=1.0

Abstract

The Upper Tana Basin, in the central part of Kenya is approximately 12,500km2 with an elevation range of 400m to 5199m. Several parks are found in this area such as the Aberdare National Park and Mount Kenya consisting of a rich biodiversity. Here, we present an occurrence dataset of the birds of the Upper Tana catchment area recorded from 7th to 14th of May, 2019.  We recorded a total of 600 occurrences consisting of 145 species.

Keywords: Occurrence, Aves, Upper Tana Basin, Observation

Project details

Project title: Developing a Freshwater Biodiversity Information System for the Tana River Basin, Kenya, for Improved Ecosystem Management and Development Planning
Personnel: Siro Masinde
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The Upper Tana catchment is situated north-west of Nairobi and covers Nyeri, Meru, Kirinyaga, Muranga, Embu and Tharaka-Nithi counties. The surveys were carried out in the following counties: Embu, Meru and Tharaka-Nithi from 7th to 14th May 2019.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=uppertana_birds

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All individuals were identified to the Species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Aves

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Embu, Meru and Tharaka-Nithi counties in Kenya.
Coordinates: 0°34'22.8''S and 0°17'56.4''N Latitude; 37°24'39.6''E and 37°59'56.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 7, 2019 - May 14, 2019

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of Birds of the Upper Tana Basin, Kenya
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/archive.do?r=uppertana_birds
Publication date of data: 2019-07-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-07-31
Hierarchy level: Dataset