Description
Quiçama National Park is situated 70 kilometres south of Luanda, the capital of Angola. The park spans an area of 9,960 km2 and has as natural limits the Cuanza and Longa Rivers, as well as the Atlantic Ocean in the west with 125 km of coastline. The park is situated in the Zambezian phytogeographic region presenting three main zones: extensive flood-plains with Echinochloa spp grassland and Cyperus papyrus swamps of the Cuanza and Longa rivers; well-rounded hills of heavy cotton soils with treeless Setaria welwitschii grasslands; and gently undulating plateaux of deep red to yellow sands with a mosaic of savannah and thicket communities. The park has the capacity to provide large and ecologically viable habitats to protect many species, including several listed as threatened on the IUCN red list, and it is recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA - A1, A2, A3: 2001). The present dataset is a result of collateral data gathered during a mammal survey conducted by INBAC and RWCP Angolan team between June and September 2017. Given that the Quiçama National Park avifauna is poorly known, this dataset is a first step to update knowledge on the birds of this IBA. It is intention of INBAC to continue documenting the avifauna in the park in order to create a checklist, valuable for management activities as well as to both researchers and tourists. Currently the dataset is composed by 66 species of which we highlight Gyps africanus (CR), Torgos tracheliotos (EN), Polemaetus bellicosus (VU), Terathopius ecaudatus (NT) and Platysteira albifrons (NT).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 104 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Sá S, Fernandes S, Elizalde D (2017): Avifauna do Parque Nacional da Quiçama. v1.3. INBAC. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=passaros_quicama&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is INBAC. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 35f47748-8f91-4cca-9d2c-573ab66078cc. INBAC publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Diversity; Bird species; ecology; Angola; Red listed; Observation
Contacts
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Parque Nacional da Quiçama
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-10.39, 13.19], North East [-9.18, 14.21] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Class | aves |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2017-06-15 / 2017-10-07 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Strengthening the institutional network in Angola to mobilize biodiversity data |
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Identifier | BID-AF2015-0122-NAC |
Funding | GBIF BID National Grant |
Study Area Description | Angola |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
observações oportunísticas
Study Extent | Parque Nacional da Quiçama |
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Method step description:
- N/A
Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 35f47748-8f91-4cca-9d2c-573ab66078cc |
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http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=passaros_quicama |