Bird Conservation Areas: Official Designated Lands in New York State

Bird Conservation Areas are New York State lands officially designated for their value to bird conservation. This dataset provides point locations for these areas, with points representing approximate locations that may correspond to large land parcels. Columns suggest detailed information on criteria, habitat types, and administrative boundaries.

Use Cases

• Mapping conservation priorities using Latitude and Longitude coordinates.
• Analyzing regional bird habitat distribution using the Region and County columns.
• Assessing key conservation criteria for specific sites using the Key BCA Criteria column.
• Linking designated areas to municipal jurisdictions using the Municipality and NYS Municipal Boundaries columns.
• Identifying critical habitat types present within conservation areas using the Critical Habitat Types column.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov signals established importance and official status.
• Contains detailed geospatial and administrative columns (e.g., Latitude, Longitude, County, Municipality, Region).
• Data is actively maintained, with a last updated date of 2026-04-04 according to one source.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are consistently missing or listed as 'None' across all sources.
• The point locations are described as 'approximate' and 'may represent large areas,' indicating potential precision limitations for fine-scale analysis.
• There is a minor conflict in the 'last updated' timestamps between the two Socrata entries (2026-04-04 vs. 2026-04-03).

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Collection Method

Official designation of state lands for bird conservation value.

Freshness

2026-04-04 23:04:40.328212

Geography

New York State, United States