Bird Banding and Resighting Records from St. Denis National Wildlife Area, 1982–2001

Bird banding and resighting data collected by Environment and Climate Change Canada researchers over a 19-year period at the St. Denis National Wildlife Area. The dataset was digitized and cleaned through the Living Data Project data rescue hackathon and internship. It consists of five spreadsheets detailing banding information, species codes, resighting records, pond coordinates, and a data dictionary.

Use Cases

• Analyze species-specific survival and movement patterns based on banding and resighting records.
• Study population dynamics and site fidelity in a prairie wetland ecosystem.
• Map bird observations to specific pond locations using the provided latitude and longitude coordinates.

Strengths

• Data covers a 19-year period from 1982 to 2001, providing a long-term ecological record.
• Includes five structured files (banding_info, species_codes, resightings, pond_coords, data_dictionary) for clarity.
• Dataset was digitized and cleaned through a formal data rescue initiative involving graduate and undergraduate assistants.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) researchers, University of Regina.

Collection Method

Field banding and resighting of birds, followed by data rescue digitization.

Time Range

1982–2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:14:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

St. Denis National Wildlife Area, Canada.