PBG052 [1]
Description:
Song Bird nest data in the Patch-Burn Grazing study
File upload:
PBG052.csv [2]
Variables:
Flag
- Label:
- Definition: Whether nest information was complete (when marked “Okay”)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
DataCode
- Label:
- Definition: Dataset Code
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Rectype
- Label:
- Definition: Record type
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
RecYear
- Label:
- Definition: Year collected
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: Year (YYYY)
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
NestID
- Label:
- Definition: Unique nest ID, but no consistency between years
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Species
- Label:
- Definition: 4-digit AOU (now AOS) approved bird species code
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Unit
- Label:
- Definition: Konza watershed
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Graze
- Label:
- Definition: Grazed by cattle (Y or N)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Burn
- Label:
- Definition: Years since last prescribed burn (0, 1, 2)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
Patch
- Label:
- Definition: Effective management regime and year since burn, includes patch-burn grazing (PBG0-2), annually burning and grazing (ABG), and annually burning but no grazing (ABN)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Treatment
- Label:
- Definition: Effective management regime, includes patch-burn grazing (PBG), annually burning and grazing (ABG), and annually burning but no grazing (ABN)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
UTM1
- Label:
- Definition: East/West coordinate
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
UTM2
- Label:
- Definition: North/South coordinate
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- 1 = Missing or Not Measured
Method
- Label:
- Definition: Method that was used to first locate the nest
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
StageFound
- Label:
- Definition: At what stage the nest was first located (Building, Laying, Incubation, or Brooding)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
SurvTillIncub
- Label:
- Definition: Whether the nest survived until at least one egg hatched (Y or N)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
DateFirstFound
- Label:
- Definition: The date on which the nest was first located
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
- Missing values:
- 0/0/0000 = Missing or Not Measured
DateLastPresent
- Label:
- Definition: The last date on which a nest was still considered active
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
- Missing values:
- 0/0/0000 = Missing or Not Measured
DateLastChecked
- Label:
- Definition: The final date a nest was visited and nest fate was determined
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
- Missing values:
- 0/0/0000 = Missing or Not Measured
FirstFound
- Label:
- Definition: The Julian date on which the nest was first located
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
LastPresent
- Label:
- Definition: The last Julian date on which a nest was still considered active
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
LastChecked
- Label:
- Definition: The final Julian date a nest was visited and nest fate was determined
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- blank = Missing or Not Measured
NestFate
- Label:
- Definition: The final fate of the nest, includes Successful (S), Failed (F), or Unknown (U)
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Fate
- Label:
- Definition: The numerical final fate of the nest for nest survival analyses, includes Successful (0), Failed (1), or Unknown (2)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
Cause
- Label:
- Definition: Whether a nest was successful or not, and lists the cause of failure if the nest was not successful. A failed nest could have been Abandoned, Depredated, Trampled, or have an Unknown cause of failure
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Parasitized
- Label:
- Definition: Whether a nest was parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) or not
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Maxhosteggs
- Label:
- Definition: The maximum number of host eggs present in the nest cup at one time
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
MaxBHCOeggs
- Label:
- Definition: The maximum number of parasitic eggs present in the nest cup at one time
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- 1 = Missing or Not Measured
Hosthatched
- Label:
- Definition: The total number of host eggs that successfully hatched
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
BHCOhatched
- Label:
- Definition: The total number of parasitic eggs that successfully hatched
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
Maxhostyoung
- Label:
- Definition: The maximum number of host young present in the nest cup at one time
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
MaxBHCOyoung
- Label:
- Definition: The maximum number of parasitic young present in the nest cup at one time
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
Hostfledged
- Label:
- Definition: The total number of host young that successfully fledged from the nest
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
BHCOfledged
- Label:
- Definition: The total number of parasitic young that successfully fledged from the nest
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- NA = Missing or Not Measured
Number of records:
692