Labrador DND Waterfowl Survey 1994-2004

The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS), as commissioned by the Department of National Defense (DND), conducted the Labrador DND Waterfowl Survey using helicopters to survey breeding waterfowl in eight years between 1994-2004 on fourteen 10x10 km (100 km²) plots located in Labrador. The objective of the survey was to assess the effects of jet overflights in the DND low-level flight training area in Labrador on breeding waterfowl densities. The survey design included a subset of plots designated as control plots with no history of overflights and experimental plots that were subjected to high frequency, low (generally <500m above ground level) overflights (>4 per day). Earlier analyses based on the three control plots (DND-9, DND-10 WL-15) and three experimental plots (DND-1, DND-3, DND-8) surveyed from 1995-1998 showed high densities of Canada Goose and American Black Duck on the high frequency plots compared to the control plots, suggesting these species can use habitat that is subjected to frequent low-level jet overflights (Bateman et al. 1999). This is the first publication of the complete survey dataset including all plots, years and species.

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

Bateman, M.C., Hicks, A.H., & Bowes, S.M. 1999. Assessment of Breeding Waterfowl Populations in the Labrador Low Level Flight Training Area. Environmental Mitigation Program Supporting Military Flight Activity in Goose Bay, Labrador. Canadian Wildlife Service Report. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/eccc/cw66/CW66-1045-1999-eng.pdf

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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
completed; complété RI_593
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 )
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Protect Species Well-Being
  • Assess Status of Species
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 )
  • Atlantic
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
1994-06-01
End date
2004-06-16
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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;fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_AllData_ToutesLesDonnées.gdb.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;ZIP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_BMDE.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_SurveyAreas_Plots_SecteursInventaire_Quadrats.kmz ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;KMZ;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_SurveyConditions_ConditionsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_LDND100_SurveyObservations_ObservationsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

File identifier
4fc3d289-e8eb-4932-ad59-af7db93c8d45 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
2026-06-09T19:43:45.037019Z
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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