Herring Gulls Decadal Nest Count Survey and Contaminants Study

Herring gulls are piscivorous and occupy a high trophic level, thus they can accumulate contaminant concentrations attoxic effect levels. Data provided here is part of a larger Great Lakes-wide study that has taken place over four decades. Nest counts and contaminants data for Fighting Island (Detroit River) and Middle Island (Lake Erie) are available. Species include: herring gulls, ring-billed gulls, common tern, black-crowned night-herons. Surveys are on-going, but the gulls have not returned to the Detroit River system since the year 2007.

Basic view

Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
b052e5ff-2b0a-4618-8021-9b6a5671c8c5 XML
Date Stamp
2022-01-06T14:46:46
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 

Data identification

Date (Creation)
1987-01-01
Date (Publication)
2015-12-30
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Vector
Owner
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Pamela Martin ( Chief, Wildlife Toxicology Research Section )
Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
905-336-4879

Keywords

Theme

  • Great Lakes, Area of Concern, populations, Huron-Erie Corridor, gulls, decadal, bioaccumulation, mercury, Hughes, Martin, Weseloh, Moore, Herbert, de Solla, Braune, McGoldrick

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Population

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Nature and Biodiversity - Contaminants

Business Functions

  • Designate and Manage Areas of Interest or Concern

  • Oversee and Manage Site Conditions

Geography

  • Water - Drainage regions - Great Lakes

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Strategic Policy Branch

  • Regional Directors General Offices

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Ontario Region

  • Wildlife and Landscape Science

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
1974-01-01
End Date
2016-01-01

Extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


 
 

Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • XLS ( 2015 )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

Overviews

overview
large_thumbnail

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

Great Lakes, Area of Concern, populations, Huron-Erie Corridor, gulls, decadal, bioaccumulation, mercury, Hughes, Martin, Weseloh, Moore, Herbert, de Solla, Braune, McGoldrick
Business Functions
Designate and Manage Areas of Interest or Concern Oversee and Manage Site Conditions
ECCC Information Category EN
Nature and Biodiversity - Contaminants
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Population
external.theme.EC_Branch
Regional Directors General Offices Strategic Policy Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Ontario Region Wildlife and Landscape Science
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

Provided by

Share on social sites

Associated resources

Not available