Conservation Priorities for Recreational Birding in the Southeast United States, by County (2011)

Publication Date

2019

Start Date

2011-01-01

End Date

2011-12-31

Warnell, K., 2019, Conservation Priorities for Recreational Birding in the Southeast United States, by County (2011): U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase, https://doi.org/10.21429/qh4e-mj75.

This dataset was created as part of a project to identify priority areas for conservation of land for recreational birding in the southeast United States. The priority conservation counties can be used to identify where, at the regional level, conservation of high-quality birding areas will provide the greatest benefit in terms of supporting recreational birding activity. These can also be overlaid with other data sources at the appropriate scale, including other ecosystem service maps , to find areas where conservation would provide multiple benefits. When using these data, please keep in mind that they are designed for landscape-level assessments; due to inaccuracies in the national-scale input datasets and potential bias in eBird observation locations, they should not be used to identify specific sites popular for recreational birding or with a lack of recreational birding activity. This information can be used to identify possible target areas for land conservation to provide recreational birding opportunities, but field validation of potential project areas is necessary to assess suitability for recreational birding.

ScienceBase WMS

ScienceBase WFS

• National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
• Southeast CASC

Data source

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