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    • R1: Oregon Coast: Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Slide Catalog of Scanned Images

    Metadata Updated: January 14, 2026

    Photography from helicopter (or plane) taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution.

    The USFWS has conducted aerial surveys to photograph surface-nesting seabird colonies annually within the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex (OCNWRC) since 1988 - 2009. These surveys were conducted by helicopter over two – three days in early- to mid- June, coincident with late incubation/early hatching of common murres. During each survey, photographs were taken at an oblique angle and at 260-330 m flying altitude by two photographers using 35 mm cameras and 100-400 mm lenses. More than 63,000 images from these surveys of Oregon and Washington seabird colonies were available only in 35 mm film slide format. The inevitable degradation of these slides, some of which are now nearly 40 years old, made conversion to a stable digital format critical in order to prevent loss of data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 14, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date January 14, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI FWS DCAT-US

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 14, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date January 14, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/FWS_ServCat_125363
    Data First Published 2020-12-31T00:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-31T00:00:00Z
    Category Relational Database
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:18
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/fws-data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id d55b6247-ea32-4306-ba82-421ab30971da
    Harvest Source Id f51f1f6c-4e4a-4e0a-b4e3-a5577c6dcc19
    Harvest Source Title DOI FWS DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/125363
    Old Spatial -124.860847,41.9984856,-122.577896,48.7770653
    Program Code 010:028, 010:094
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bc6aba630795ec31292e9ac5df58bef1446b82d1e884c39bf77f841e356425fa
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -124.860847, 41.9984856, -124.860847, 48.7770653, -122.577896, 48.7770653, -122.577896, 41.9984856, -124.860847, 41.9984856}
    Temporal 1988-01-01/2008-01-01

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