Waterbird Counts at Two Kenyan Coastal Sites, 2000-Present

306 surveys since 2000 have recorded 121 waterbird taxa and over 1.1 million individual birds at Sabaki River Mouth and Mida Creek in Kenya. A Rocha Kenya organized this long-term monitoring to track migratory populations and assess trends. The dataset is published as a Darwin Core Archive with event and occurrence tables.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term population trends for 121 waterbird taxa based on over 9,000 observations.
• Model seasonal arrival and departure patterns of migratory birds at two key stopover sites.
• Study the effects of habitat change and human disturbance on waterbird counts over two decades.
• Assess biodiversity and species composition at the Sabaki River Mouth and Mida Creek sites.

Strengths

• Long-term temporal coverage with monitoring starting in 2000.
• Large scale with 306 surveys and counts of 1,115,428 individual birds.
• Standardized Darwin Core format with event and occurrence tables for interoperability.
• Specific geographic coordinates provided for both monitoring sites.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The list of survey participants is described as incomplete.

Provenance

Source

A Rocha Kenya

Collection Method

Regular field monitoring and counts, with data processed via Quarto scripts into a Darwin Core Archive.

Time Range

2000 to present

Geography

Sabaki River Mouth and Mida Creek, Coast of Kenya