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    Bird Species of Special Concern [ds463]

    Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

    This data set is an intersection of all 63 vector polygon ranges depicted in the following publication with a statewide grid of 25 square mile hexagon cells. Shuford, W.D., and Gardali, T., editors. 2008. California Bird Species of Special Concern: A ranked assessment of species, subspecies, and distinct populations of birds of immediate conservation concern in California. Studies of Western Birds 1. Western Field Ornithologists, Camarillo, California, and California Department of Fish and Game. Sacramento. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/species/ssc/birds.html The vector polygon ranges were hand drawn at a scale of 1:6,600,000 by authors and editors of the Bird Species of Special Concern report and digitized into shapefiles by staff of the Biogeographic Data Branch, California Department of Fish and Game. The hexagon grid for the state was created by Steve Goldman by modifying an AML (Arc Macro Language) script originally written by Eric Kauffman.

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    Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

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    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
    Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Maintainer
    Identifier 5801a2ce-503e-46bb-89f3-f66c45a4503f
    Data First Published 2020-01-06T23:45:52.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2020-03-24T22:54:31.269Z
    Category Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724164837
    Harvest Object Id 0778c36b-7058-481a-ad6d-7817bcb1355f
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ec2ee3d443fbf7ce51a5591f32462e98373ff0b08542674033eed4179a51eff8
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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