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ISLAND GOOSE NESTING DATA
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER AND FORMAT DESCRIPTION

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Last updated on July 20, 2007

SUMMARY

ISLAND GOOSE NESTING DATA
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Annual monitoring of island goose nesting in Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River System was implemented in 1990. All islands next to the main channel in Pool 13 were surveyed for goose nests. This data is being collected to see if islands are important to nesting geese.

For information on the sampling design contact:

Mike Griffin
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
206 Rose Street
Bellevue, IA 52031

Email Michael.Griffin@dnr.state.ia.us
Phone 563.872.5700
Fax 563.872.5456



ALL FIELDS ARE RIGHT JUSTIFIED IN ASCII CHARACTER FORMAT.

THE "FORMAT" COLUMN CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FORMAT SPECIFIERS:
"a": alpha character (always UPPER case);
"b": a blank space;
"blank": a missing value;
"c": alpha character/symbol/digit;
"c(xx)": character string where xx represents the maximum number
of characters allowed;
"9": any digit, 0 - 9;
"YYYY": date format;
"HH:MI": time format;

Click on Field Name for description:

 

Field Name

Field Position

Value Range/Format

ISLAND NAME 0:15  
DATE 17:23  
RIVER MILE 28:33  
SIZE 39:43  
DFW 49:53  
ELEV 59:63  
EGGS 70:73  
RCDATE 76:82  
FOUND 87:89  
SUCCESS 96:98  
HATCHED 106:109  
PREDATED 117:119  
FLOODED 126:128  
ACRES 135:139  
INUM 144:149  
EASTING 150:159  
NORTHING 160:169  
ZONE 175:179  



Field Descriptions

ISLAND NAME
Island name for a survey site. Island names are unique descriptors
for site location.
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DATE
The date the island was first surveyed.
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RIVER MILE
The location of the island to the nearest tenth of a river mile.
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SIZE
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DFW
The distance of the nest from the water. A linear measurement.
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ELEV
The elevation of the nest above the water at discovery.
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EGGS
The number of eggs in a nest at discovery.
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RCDATE
The date the nest was rechecked.
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FOUND
Indicates if the nest was found at time of recheck.
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SUCCESS
Indicates if the nest was successful at time of recheck.
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HATCHED
The number of eggs hatched.
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PREDATED
Indicates if the nest was predated.
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FLOODED
Indicates if the nest was flooded
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ACRES
The size of the island in acres.
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INUM
Island number for a survey site. Island numbers are unique descriptors for site location.
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EASTING
East UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates of survey sites.
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NORTHING
North UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates of survey sites.
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ZONE
Numeric field to record Global Positioning System (GPS) zone.
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Disclaimer

These data have been generated by State agencies under contract with the Department of the Interior and the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC). Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the UMESC, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. However, error correction is a continuing process, and the UMESC routinely makes changes to data as errors are discovered. The file date is referred to as the release date and should be mentioned in all references to data. These data have been provided as a unit package to ensure that you receive a valid dataset collected in a consistent manner. Methods, purposes, and conditions can vary dramatically among data-collecting efforts and these data should not be combined with other datasets from the UMESC or other sources unless the user fully understands the procedures and purposes used to create each set of data and can verify that data are comparable across sources.


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