Oblique photography surveys and counts of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses in a subset of colonies across South Georgia during the 2023/2024 season

This dataset comprises oblique photographic surveys and derived counts of albatrosses in colonies across South Georgia during the 2023/2024 season (austral summer). This dataset includes stitched images of sites surveyed, as well as derived counts of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses during their breeding season. Counts are assigned to their respective colonies within larger sites.

Surveys were conducted as part of an all-island albatross survey carried out every 10 years to monitor albatross trends across South Georgia. Flights were conducted by personnel at BAS and supported by the MV SG Pharos. This project was funded by the following: Friends of South Georgia Island, South Georgia Heritage Trust, Antarctic Research Trust, Peter Smith Charitable Trust for Nature, UK Blue Belt Programme.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02056

Date (Publication): 2025-05-13

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02056

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre	Mackley, E., Manthorpe, S.J, & Phillips, R.A.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Endangered Species
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Indicator Species
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Population Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Survival
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology

BAS Free-text keywords

South Georgia
black-browed albatross
grey-headed albatross
monitoring
oblique photography

Use limitation: Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Biota
Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2023-11-21

End date: 2023-11-30

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http	http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=3f71209a-33d5-4d48-8899-d8a6d8d295e6	GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Diurnal correction factor:

Counts were corrected for diurnal variation in attendance of non-breeding birds and failed breeders as in Poncet et al (2006, 2017), where 2-hour interval counts from selected colonies at Bird Island were used to standardise counts to 12:00h UTC.