Wei Hu‡, Taiyu Chen‡, Zheping Xu§, Dawei Wu‡, Changhu Lu‡Corresponding author: Changhu Lu ( luchanghu@njfu.com.cn ) © Wei Hu, Taiyu Chen, Zheping Xu, Dawei Wu, Changhu Lu. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Hu W, Chen T, Xu Z, Wu D, Lu C (2022) Occurrence dataset of waterbirds in the Tiaozini Wetland, a World Nature Heritage, China. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e90837 |  |
Tiaozini, the core area of the Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat in Dongtai, Jiangsu province and a World Heritage Site, has provided an ideal habitat for migratory birds. As an important hub on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway (EAAF), Tiaozini wetland provide pivotal stopover and wintering sites for tens of thousands of migratory waterbirds, including some global critically endangered species such as Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) and Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer). Although many researchers have conducted a lot of studies on waterbirds in Tiaozini wetland, there is still lack of a dataset on waterbird species composition and individual quantity in Tiaozini wetland throughout the year. Here, we conducted a one-year waterbird survey in the Tiaozini wetland during 2020-2021, and provided an occurrence dataset with detailed species and geographic information.
This occurrence dataset is the first public record of species and number of waterbirds in Tiaozini Wetland for a whole year, which include the taxonomic information, location information, number, Investigation date and endangered level for each species. All data have been published on GBIF.