31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:27:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Bird counts from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016 2020-06-04 publication 2016-06-30 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 doi: Siriwardena, G.M., Taylor, R.M., Norfolk, D., Jones, K., Alison, J., Astbury, S., Burden, A., Emmett, B.A., Garbutt, A., Henrys, P.A., Owen, A., Smart, S.M., Sharps, K., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Bird counts from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 The data set consists of bird species counts, recorded in 300 1km squares across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP). The monitoring programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 Siriwardena, G.M. British Trust for Ornithology gavin.siriwardena@bto.org https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2010-1186 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Taylor, R.M. British Trust for Ornithology rachel.taylor@bto.org https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3365-3908 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Norfolk, D. British Trust for Ornithology david.norfolk@bto.org author Jones, K. British Trust for Ornithology kelvin.jones@bto.org author Alison, J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-6192 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Astbury, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Burden, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-1638 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Emmett, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Garbutt, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Henrys, P.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4758-1482 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Owen, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Smart, S.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-7832 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Sharps, K. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3265-1505 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Williams, B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wood, C.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Alison, J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication bird GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Environmental survey Biodiversity Wales Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme GMEP agri-environment scheme otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions All use of the data (or any part of it) must be accompanied by an acknowledgement of the source in the following format: otherRestrictions © Crown copyright: Welsh Government licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0 otherRestrictions © Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru Mae’r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0 otherRestrictions For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required. otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Siriwardena, G.M., Taylor, R.M., Norfolk, D., Jones, K., Alison, J., Astbury, S., Burden, A., Emmett, B.A., Garbutt, A., Henrys, P.A., Owen, A., Smart, S.M., Sharps, K., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Bird counts from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 textTable 10000 English utf8 biota 2013-03-04 2016-06-30 -5.473 -2.654 51.375 53.434 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/31da0a94-62be-47b3-b76e-4bdef3037360 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The surveys consisted of four (reduced to three from 2015-16 onwards) visits to each square by trained, professional surveyors using standardised protocols. Surveys were equally spaced through mid-March to mid-July. On each visit, the surveyor walked a route that passed within 50m of all parts of the survey square to which access had been secured, beginning at around 06:00 and taking up to five hours. Surveys were not conducted in conditions known to affect the detection of birds, i.e. strong winds and more than light rain. The survey route was started in different places on each visit, so that all areas were visited at least once before 08:00. All birds seen or heard were recorded on high-resolution field maps using standard BTO activity codes. Recording and standardizing route coverage (where surveyors actually walked) was important both between visits and to ensure comparable repeat coverage when squares are revisited. Data were recorded on standard forms and field maps, which were collated in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Wales office in Bangor and sent to the BTO head office for digital inputting, after being copied physically and electronically in Bangor. Data were then digitized using ArcMap (versions up to v10.5). The process included checking of uncertain counts, species codes and identifications, for which the digitizer checked the data with the surveyor if necessary, before making a judgement on likely record accuracy. Additional checks were intrinsic to subsequent data processing before being loaded into a final database at UKCEH. To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.