Identification

Title

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) bird data assemblages

Abstract

This dataset contains details for each and every bird assemblage on every Special Protection Area (SPA). Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive, which came into force in April 1979. They are classified for rare and vulnerable birds (as listed on Annex I of the Directive), and for regularly occurring migratory species. The EU Commission requires information on each site to be compiled in the form of a Standard Data Form. This dataset is updated every time a new or amended batch of information is submitted to the EU Commission. This dataset contains information drawn from section 3.3 of the Standard Data Form (other important species) and also repeated in free text form in the quality and importance section (section 4.2). This dataset is only applicable to December 2015 onwards - prior to that date the bird assemblage data was integrated with the other bird data (see Special Protection Areas bird data submitted to the EU). From December 2015 onwards this included the following fields SITE_CODE DESIGNATION_TYPE_CODE (always SPA) SITE_NAME COUNTRY_CODE OTHER_SPECIES_GROUP (B = birds) OTHER_SPECIES_CODE (see other_species_name for translation of code). OTHER_SPECIES_NAME (Waterfowl assemblage or breeding seabird assemblage) OTHER_SPECIES_SENSITIVE (0= none sensitive, 1 = sensitive. Note none of these data are sensitive) OTHER_SPECIES_NP (1= feature no longer present) OTHER_SPECIES_SIZE_MIN OTHER_SPECIES_SIZE_MAX (note that min and max are the same for all assemblages) OTHER_SPECIES_UNIT (i= individuals) OTHER_SPECIES_CATEGORY – blank in this case because quantitative population size is always given instead of these broad categories. OTHER_SPECIES_MOTIVATION (C: International Conventions - in this case Ramsar for the non breeding waterfowl; D: other reasons)

Resource type

nonGeographicDataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/97945f14-ab30-4e1c-ba60-145022234a1a-Natura2000-tranche50-SPA-assemblages.csv

name: Natura2000-tranche50-SPA-assemblages.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

97945f14-ab30-4e1c-ba60-145022234a1a

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Freshwater

Marine

Terrestrial

Protected Areas

Habitats Directive

Natura 2000

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-01-01

End position

2015-12-22

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-26

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

The information provided here, follows the officially agreed site information format for Natura 2000 sites, as set out in the Official Journal of the European Union recording the Commission Implementing Decision of 11 July 2011 (2011/484/EU). This is known as the Standard Data Format. As part of the December 2015 submission, several sections of the UK’s previously published Standard Data Forms have been updated. For details of the approach taken by the UK in this submission please refer to the following document: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/Natura2000_StandardDataForm_UKApproach_Dec2015.pdf. More general information on Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in the United Kingdom is available from the SPA home page on the JNCC website. This webpage also provides links to Standard Data Forms for all SPAs in the UK. For all sites other than those in the offshore zone, the Statutory Nature Conservation Body responsible for the site (eg Natural England or Scottish Natural Heritage) has supplied JNCC with the information for the standard data forms.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma Separated Values

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: "Contains public sector data © JNCC/NE/NRW/SNH/DOENI. Licence: OGL"

Limitations on public access

no limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language

eng