Atlantic Agricultural Waterfowl Survey 2008-2013

The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) Atlantic Agricultural Waterfowl Survey (ATLAG4) used helicopters to survey breeding waterfowl on square 2x2 km (4 km²) plots in agricultural areas in the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick (NB), Nova Scotia (NS) and Prince Edward Island (PE) from 2008-2013. The survey was delivered in partnership with Ducks Unlimited Canda (DUC) and as part of the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture (EHJV) program. The objective of the survey was to establish baseline information about breeding season abundances and distributions of waterfowl in agricultural areas in the Maritimes, which were previously under-represented in other waterfowl surveys in the region.

Complete bilingual metadata including detailed survey design, survey 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
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 )
  • New Brunswick
  • Nova Scotia
  • Prince Edward Island
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 )
  • 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
2008-04-24
End date
2013-05-09
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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_ATLAG4_AllData_ToutesLesDonnées.gdb.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;ZIP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_BMDE.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_ProtocolDataDictionary.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_SurveyAreas_Plots_SecteursInventaire_Quadrats.kmz ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;KMZ;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_SurveyConditions_ConditionsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
CWS_ATLAG4_SurveyObservations_ObservationsInventaire.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

File identifier
60c0041b-aa4a-4d9d-a219-a5129343de60 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
2026-06-09T19:21:30.510932Z
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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