Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950

Occurrence
Versão mais recente published by The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) on dez. 19, 2025 The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Publication date:
19 de dezembro de 2025
Licença:
CC-BY 4.0

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Descrição

Historical breeding bird occurrence data collected by the Dutch Plantenziektekundige Dienst from 1922 to 1950. All data were originally collected by experts and volunteers throughout the Netherlands by observation of nestboxes and wild nests. It includes 40.721 occurrence records across 28 years of 105 species.

Registros de Dados

Os dados deste recurso de ocorrência foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 40.721 registros.

Também existem 1 tabelas de dados de extensão. Um registro de extensão fornece informações adicionais sobre um registro do núcleo. O número de registros em cada tabela de dados de extensão é ilustrado abaixo.

Occurrence (core)
40721
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
69073

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versões

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Como citar

Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:

Burant J B, Oosterkamp W E, Thapa P, van Hofslot T, Visser M E, Vriend S J G (2025). Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950. Version 1.1. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=nestkast_1&v=1.1

Direitos

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O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

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Palavras-chave

birds presence; breeding birds; ecology; phenology; nest site; history; nest succes; long term ecological monitoring; Occurrence

Contatos

Joseph B Burant
  • Originador
  • Ponto De Contato
  • Researcher
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL
Wietske E Oosterkamp
  • Provedor Dos Metadados
  • Originador
  • Research assistent data
Netherlands Institure of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL
Pratima Thapa
  • Originador
  • Research assistent
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL
Thijs van Hofslot
  • Originador
  • Student
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL
Marcel E Visser
  • Originador
  • Head of department
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL
Stefan J G Vriend
  • Originador
  • Data manager
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Wageningen
NL

Cobertura Geográfica

The Netherlands in the early twentieth century

Coordenadas delimitadoras Sul Oeste [50,771, 3,357], Norte Leste [53,437, 7,237]

Cobertura Taxonômica

The data include 105 bird species, with 90.5 percent of all records belonging to nine species.

Class Aves

Cobertura Temporal

Data Inicial / Data final 1922-03-17 / 1950-05-28

Dados Sobre o Projeto

Nenhuma descrição disponível

Título Nestkast 1.0

O pessoal envolvido no projeto:

Métodos de Amostragem

Volunteers checked nests in nestboxes and a small number of wild nests. They recorded lay date, clutch size and brood size. These data were gathered into a physical dataset by the Plantenziektekundige Dienst.

Área de Estudo various areas in the Netherlands

Descrição dos passos do método:

  1. Source files were scanned and digitized using the pre-trained Transkribus model 'The Text Titan I' for text recognition, the 'Universal Lines' model for layout recognition, and a machine learning model trained on 80 manually transcribed pages for table recognition. The raw text output was cleaned with manual review and automation using Python with pandas and regex libraries.
  2. Datafication included standardizing area and observer names. Location names were manually geographically coded using historical Esri maps of the Netherlands. Species taxonomy was mapped to the vernacular names using the taxize package in R. Lay dates were recorded as integers, through inference we assumed that all lay dates were recorded as April dates (with April 1 = 1 and March 31 = 0) unless specified otherwise. These dates were reformatted to ISO 8601 and used as eventDate.
  3. Quality control included reviewing suspicious values (e.g. outliers, improbable and impossible values) against the source material. The data was further validated against the original reports from the Plantenziektekundige Dienst.

Metadados Adicionais

This data is a subset of Burant, Joseph B; Oosterkamp, Wietske E; Thapa, Pratima; van Hofslot, Thijs; Visser, Marcel E; Vriend, Stefan J G, 2025, "Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950", https://doi.org/10.34894/ZOAZP8, DataverseNL, V1

Acknowledgements We thank all professionals and volunteers involved in the collection of the original data. Their efforts in observation and recording have made this data rescue project possible. It is remarkable how much data have been collected in 28 years and been safely stored for 100 years. 
Identificadores alternativos https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=nestkast_1