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Winter Bird Census

Citation

Finnish Museum of Natural History - Zoology Unit (2025). Winter Bird Census. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vmdzin accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.

Description

Censuses cover all observed bird species. Annual counts have been done in the winter time since 1957. Methodology is explained in link: http://www.luomus.fi/seurannat/methods.htm Data quality: From year 2019, 390 documents are incorrectly missing MY.taxonCensus: aves -key/value, which tell that all observed birds have been recorded during the census.

Sampling Description

Sampling

In Finnish: https://tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseurannat/lintulaskennat-ja-seurannat/talvilintulaskenta/

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  2. Plantae
    rank: kingdom
  3. Fungi
    rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Finland

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Aleksi Lehikoinen
administrative point of contact
email: aleksi.lehikoinen@helsinki.fi
FinBIF
administrative point of contact
email: helpdesk@laji.fi
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