Birds at Danish Lighthouses 1883 through 1939

Occurrence
Latest version published by Training Organization on Jul 3, 2025 Training Organization
Publication date:
3 July 2025
Published by:
Training Organization
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

This dataset presents occurrence records and notes of birds extracted from the multiple volumes of “Fuglene ved de danske Fyr 1883-1939” (i.e. “Birds at the Danish Lighthouses 1883-1939”).The dataset was created firstly by digitizing the book volumes "Fuglene ved de danske Fyr" into PDF files, OCR-ing the PDF files and finally extracting relevant data and compiling them in a database file. In the period 1883-1939, there were 45 lighthouses and lightships functioning in Denmark.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 1,212 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
1212
Multimedia 
1212

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:

Poon A, Poon V S A (2025). Birds at Danish Lighthouses 1883 through 1939. Version 1.87. Training Organization. Occurrence dataset. https://training-ipt-b.gbif.org/resource?r=lighthouse_bird&v=1.87

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Training Organization. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 383d5ac9-c7fa-41a8-8599-33a8ddf8c2d8.  Training Organization publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Aashiq Poon
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Research Scholar
IARI
Aashiq Poon V S
  • User
  • Research Scholar
IARI
Aashiq Poon V S
  • User

Geographic Coverage

Denmark

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Aves

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1883-01-01 / 1939-12-31

Sampling Methods

Sightings of birds and collecting of fallen birds were conducted by the light keepers. The fallen birds were sent to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen

Study Extent Denmark Lighthouses

Method step description:

  1. The dataset was created firstly by digitizing the book volumes "Fuglene ved de danske Fyr" (UK:Birds at the Danish Lighthouses 1883-1939) into PDF files, OCR-ing the PDF files and finally extracting relevant data and compiling them in a database file.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 383d5ac9-c7fa-41a8-8599-33a8ddf8c2d8
https://training-ipt-b.gbif.org/resource?r=lighthouse_bird