Québec Lowlands Survey

The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) Québec Lowlands Survey (Suivi des basses-terres) uses helicopters to annually survey breeding waterfowl on square 2x2 km (4 km²) plots located in three lowland areas in Southern Québec (St. Lawrence, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Abitibi-Temiscamingue) within the breeding range of early nesters such as the American Black Duck, Mallard, Canada Goose and Wood Duck. The main goal of the survey is to generate reliable indices for trends of all waterfowl species with similar breeding phenology nesting within the Québec lowlands, i.e. annual indices should provide estimates of the population with a coefficient of variation (CV) of 10%, and population trend should detect a 10% decline over a period of 5 years with 90% confidence. A more specific goal is to monitor relative trends of American Black Duck and Mallard, given their competition for habitat in this region of Québec.

Complete bilingual metadata including detailed survey design, protocols and data dictionaries is available in downloadable files.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2026-07-31
Date ( RI_366 )
2026-05-28
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • waterfowl
  • bird
  • aerial survey
  • survey
  • aerial
  • waterbirds
  • shorebirds
  • helicopter
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Game (Wildlife)
Environment Canada - Program Environment Canada - Program ( RI_528 )
  • 1.1.3. Migratory Birds
Canada/US States and Provinces Canada/US États et provinces ( RI_528 )
  • Quebec
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Assess Status of Species
  • Protect Species Well-Being
Directorate Direction ( RI_528 )
  • Canadian Wildlife Service
ECCC Government Titles EN ECCC Government Titles FR ( RI_528 )
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada
ECCC Geographic Scope EN ECCC Geographic Scope FR ( Place )
  • Quebec (QC)
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
1998-04-14
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Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • GDB ( 1 )

  • KMZ ( 1 )

  • CSV ( 1 )

  • PDF ( 1 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (English) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (French) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_AllData_ToutesLesDonnées.gdb.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;ZIP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_BMDE.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_SurveyAreas_Plots_SecteursInventaire_Quadrats.kmz ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;KMZ;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_SurveyConditions_ConditionsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_QCLL4_SurveyObservations_ObservationsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

File identifier
459dfb24-f60d-4c2f-8ea9-1d64039cb5a7 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
0af7faf5-495c-4074-9cf6-7dc12e6bfe3f 0af7faf5-495c-4074-9cf6-7dc12e6bfe3f
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2026-06-11T18:58:23.58753Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
 
 

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