North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2024 retrieved 2024-07-11
January 28, 2025
The North American Bird Banding Program is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge (EESC) and in Canada by the Bird Banding Office (BBO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This long-term dataset (1960-2024) consists of over 84 million bird banding, encounter and recapture records of over 1,000 bird species covered under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Title | North American Bird Banding Program Dataset 1960-2024 retrieved 2024-07-11 |
| DOI | 10.5066/P133N5HT |
| Authors | Elaine Nakash, Margarita Malorodova, Lesley-Anne Howes, Antonio Celis-Murillo |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
| USGS Organization | Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Leetown Research Laboratory |
| Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |