Birds Sighting Records Of kainji Lake National Park- New Bussa Nigeria

Okedeji Okeyoyin1, Ishaya Dung2, Omokafe Ugbogu3, Oluwaseun Osiyemi3, Ishaya Dung4, Marie-Elise Lecoq5

1 National Park Services, Abuja, Nigeria; 2 Kanji Lake National Park (KLNP), New Bussa, Nigeria; 3 Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Jericho Hill, Dugbe, Ibadan, Nigeria; 4 Kanji Lake National Park (KLNP), New Bussa, Nigeria; 5 GBIF France, , France

Corresponding author(s): Okedeji Okeyoyin (okeyoyingeorge@yahoo.co.uk)Ishaya Dung (dung_ishaya@yahoo.com)Omokafe Ugbogu (omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com)Oluwaseun Osiyemi (osinyemi2004@yahoo.com), Ishaya Dung (dung_ishaya@yahoo.com)

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Abstract

Kainji Lake National Parks in New Bussa Nigeria is responsible for protecting, preserving and conserving the gene pool of Flora and Fauna in the middle belt region of Nigeria. The protected area covers 5340.82 km2 harbouring different species of animals and plants. The protected area serves as representative sample for the Guinea Savannah region flora and fauna species hence a laboratory for research in biodiversity. This park is utilized by universities for research and training in environmental studies. The dataset presently holds 173 records of birds sighted between 2017 – 2018, consisting of 172 species, 112 genera and 47 families.

Keywords: Occurrence, Birds, kanji Lake National Park, Nigeria, Observation, Observation

Project details

Project title: Capacity Advancement for the Nigeria node of GBIF
Personnel: Omokafe Ugbogu, Okedeji Okeyoyin, Joseph Onoja, Zaccheaus Egbewole, Peter Nnabude
Funding: The project was funded by European Union and GBIF. It was co funded by Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Nigeria National Park Service, Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Nnadi Azikiwe University Awka and Nasarawa State University.Co funding
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The project occurred in the six geoecological zones across Nigeria. The records mobilized are those of herbarium specimens, insect collections and animals in parks and protected areas across Nigeria.
Design description: In the research design, specimens were digitized directly into Darwin Core spreadsheet by project team. The data cleaning was done using OpenRefine software. In the process of digitization, Google Maps (GPS finder) was used for Georeferencing of localities on specimen’s records. Validation of taxonomic records was done using Global Names Resolver and other online resources. The goal of the research design is digitization of over 10000 biodiversity data and information on threatened species, invasive alien species and species in the protected areas in each geoecological zone in Nigeria

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=kanjilakenp2019bird-sighting_records

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Birds were identified to genus and species rank
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Aquila wahlbergi Sundevall, 1850, Circaetus beaudouini J.Verreaux & Des Murs, 1862, Gypohierax angolensis (Gmelin, 1788), Nectarinia superba (Shaw, 1812), Musophaga rossae Gould, 1852

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The bird sighting was conducted in different localities within Kainji Lake National park, New Bussa, Niger State.
Coordinates: 9°3'32.4''N and 9°26'56.4''N Latitude; 5°53'20.4''E and 6°39'28.8''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Collection name: Birds Sighting Records Of kainji Lake National Park- New Bussa Nigeria
Formation period: 2017-2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Birds Sighting Records Of kainji Lake National Park- New Bussa Nigeria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=kanjilakenp2019bird-sighting_records
Publication date of data: 2019-04-05
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-02-04
Hierarchy level: Dataset