Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center - Wildlife Data

Last updated on July 20, 2007

SUMMARY

ISLAND GOOSE NESTING DATA
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER SYSTEM

Annual monitoring of island goose nesting in Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River System was implemented in 1990. All islands next to the main channel in Pool 13 were surveyed for goose nests. This data is being collected to see if islands are important to nesting geese.

For information on the sampling design contact:

Mike Griffin
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
206 Rose Street
Bellevue, IA 52031

Email Michael.Griffin@dnr.state.ia.us
Phone 563.872.5700
Fax 563.872.5456

ALL FIELDS ARE RIGHT JUSTIFIED IN ASCII CHARACTER FORMAT.

THE "FORMAT" COLUMN CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FORMAT SPECIFIERS:
"a": alpha character (always UPPER case);
"b": a blank space;
"blank": a missing value;
"c": alpha character/symbol/digit;
"c(xx)": character string where xx represents the maximum number
of characters allowed;
"9": any digit, 0 - 9;
"YYYY": date format;
"HH:MI": time format;

Click on Field Name for description:

Field Name	Field Position	Value Range/Format
ISLAND NAME	0:15
DATE	17:23
RIVER MILE	28:33
SIZE	39:43
DFW	49:53
ELEV	59:63
EGGS	70:73
RCDATE	76:82
FOUND	87:89
SUCCESS	96:98
HATCHED	106:109
PREDATED	117:119
FLOODED	126:128
ACRES	135:139
INUM	144:149
EASTING	150:159
NORTHING	160:169
ZONE	175:179

Field Descriptions

ISLAND NAME: Island name for a survey site. Island names are unique descriptors
for site location.

DATE: The date the island was first surveyed.

RIVER MILE: The location of the island to the nearest tenth of a river mile.

SIZE: ??????????

DFW: The distance of the nest from the water. A linear measurement.

ELEV: The elevation of the nest above the water at discovery.

EGGS: The number of eggs in a nest at discovery.

RCDATE: The date the nest was rechecked.

FOUND: Indicates if the nest was found at time of recheck.

SUCCESS: Indicates if the nest was successful at time of recheck.

HATCHED: The number of eggs hatched.

PREDATED: Indicates if the nest was predated.

FLOODED: Indicates if the nest was flooded

ACRES: The size of the island in acres.

INUM: Island number for a survey site. Island numbers are unique descriptors for site location.

EASTING: East UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates of survey sites.

NORTHING: North UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates of survey sites.

ZONE: Numeric field to record Global Positioning System (GPS) zone.

These data have been generated by State agencies under contract with the Department of the Interior and the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC). Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the UMESC, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. However, error correction is a continuing process, and the UMESC routinely makes changes to data as errors are discovered. The file date is referred to as the release date and should be mentioned in all references to data. These data have been provided as a unit package to ensure that you receive a valid dataset collected in a consistent manner. Methods, purposes, and conditions can vary dramatically among data-collecting efforts and these data should not be combined with other datasets from the UMESC or other sources unless the user fully understands the procedures and purposes used to create each set of data and can verify that data are comparable across sources.

ISLAND GOOSE NESTING DATA LIABILITY DISCLAIMER AND FORMAT DESCRIPTION

ISLAND GOOSE NESTING DATA
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER AND FORMAT DESCRIPTION