Title: Important Bird Areas: San Francisco Bay Area, 2008
- Polygon data
- 2011
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 2011
- Coverage: 2011
Summary
The objective of this project was to digitally map the boundaries of Audubon California's Important Bird Areas (IBA). Existing Important Bird Areas identify critical terrestrial and inland water habitats for avifauna, in particular, habitat that supports rare, threatened or endangered birds and/or exceptionally large congregations of shorebirds and/or waterfowl. The digitization of Important Bird Areas represents an important first step in conservation planning of these critical habitats using GIS. As of October 2007, a draft layer of all 148 Important Bird Areas in California was completed. Currently, a review is in progress with Audubon Chapters and local experts, with a final version completed by Nov. 1, 2008. The final map and data will be released to the public in November, 2008. Bird conservation efforts throughout California by Audubon California Bay Area Open Space Council, GreenInfo Network, Conservation Lands Network, and San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project. (2011). Important Bird Areas: San Francisco Bay Area, 2008. Bay Area Open Space Council. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/np148dh6859. For IBA site summaries, please go to the following website: http://ca.audubon.org/iba/iba_sites.shtml For criteria utilized to designate sites as Important Bird Areas in California, go to: http://ca.audubon.org/iba/iba_criteria.shtml For a searchable database by species, habitat, land use, etc., go to http://iba.audubon.org/iba/siteSearch.do Please contact Audubon California for use in analysis or publications. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Subjects
- California
- Audubon
- Important Bird Area
- Bird
- Biology and Ecology
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.409608, -114.273489, 42.094343, 32.534591)
- Geometry: BBOX (-124.409608, -114.273489, 42.094343, 32.534591)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
California Audubon Society. Important Bird Areas: San Francisco Bay Area, 2008. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/np148dh6859
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English