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    Wintering Waterfowl Monitoring - Central Valley - 1955-2022

    Metadata Updated: July 23, 2025

    The Waterfowl Program annually monitors wintering waterfowl (ducks, cranes and coots) in the Central Valley, along with US FWS partners, using fixed-wing aircraft, 1955 to current.

    Data are collected from fixed-wing aircraft with 2 observers in each. The survey is conducted the first full week in January, weather dependent. The Central Valley is into basins based on the Central Valley Joint Venture implementation areas. Species and number observed collected. Survey has been conducted since 1955 however a revised survey was developed in 2015 and continues annually. The project is funded by Pittman-Roberston Grant and State Duck Stamp funds.

    This data and metadata were submitted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Staff though the Data Management Plan (DMP) framework with the id: DMP000650. For more information, please visit https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/Sci-Data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025
    Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Maintainer
    Identifier 4b809e21-fdde-45b0-9521-e36f98194df7
    Data First Published 2023-07-20T16:42:55.195580
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-02T20:33:48.828750
    Category COVID-19, Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
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    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 e2283d75-f4f7-4569-991f-aa13074ebedf
    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 f65241a26a54cdfbd43656036bd4829dbd836a31a6b38e1d6457c6bf66884cf6
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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