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Wintering areas for birds

This map presents the Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with reported wintering areas for birds.


The spatial data on SPAs were gathered from the HELCOM contracting parties by Lund University, Sweden. In the data, the countries also indicated whether the sites were designated mainly due to wintering or breeding birds in the area. For Denmark, the information was obtained from standard forms for Natura 2000 sites. For Denmark, the data was updated after review process 20 February 2017. For Germany, the areas that were reported as “NA”(=information not available) were included in both breeding and wintering area maps.

Many of the SPAs are both wintering and breeding areas.


For the Baltic Sea Impact Index, the data was converted to 1 km x 1km grid cells.

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Date (Creation)
2016-04-06
Unique resource identifier
https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a2333437-6344-425f-9012-2d8a5d44d390
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Habitats and biotopes

GEMET

  • seasonal variation

  • bird

Keywords
  • MADS

  • HOLAS2

  • ecosystem component

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Use constraints: Data can be used freely given that the source is cited as "HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Wintering areas for birds (2017)".

Access constraints
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Other constraints
Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
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Begin date
2016-01-01
End date
2016-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
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OnLine resource
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Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Data source:

Data gathered from HELCOM contracting parties.

Denmark: Ministry of Environment and Food

Estonia: Estonian Onithological Society

Finland: Natural heritage services, Regional Centers for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

Germany: Federal Nature Conservation Agency (BfN)

Lithuania: State Service for Protected Areas under the Ministry of Environment

Latvia: Latvian Fund for Nature

Poland: General Directorate for Environmental Protection

Sweden: Lund University, Dept. of Biology


The dataset was approved by all HELCOM Contracting Parties in the HOLAS II Ecosystem component data review process during first quarter of 2017 after corrections from Denmark.


Data quality: The quality of the SPA data can be considered good, but the relative importance of SPA sites as bird wintering areas may vary. Variation also occurs within sites. Data for Russian areas was not available.


Attribute information: Raster value representing either presence (1) or absence (0) of an SPA.

File identifier
a2333437-6344-425f-9012-2d8a5d44d390 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-11-10T14:29:08
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET
bird seasonal variation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Habitats and biotopes

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