checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo

Johnston N.G.B. Steward1, Blessings Chingagwe2, Tiwonge Gawa3, Johnston N.G.B. Steward4

1 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, P.O Box 76, 76, Blantyre, Malawi; 2 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 30293, Lilongwe, Malawi; 3 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi; 4 Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, 76, Blantyre, Malawi

Corresponding author(s): Johnston N.G.B. Steward (blechingagwe@gmail.com), Blessings Chingagwe (blechingagwe@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Steward J N (2018): checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo. v1.1. Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi. Dataset/Occurrence. http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo&v=1.1

Abstract

This resource was documented in 1982 when Thyolo Mountain Evergreen Forest was one of the most important mountains for bird fauna in Malawi. Fifty five bird species occurred there of which 24 were montane species. It was also thought that 26 of the 55  exclusively occurred on Thyolo mountain and 10 of the 26 were confined to submontane foresty.

Keywords: Checklist, evergreen forest, , Checklist, Derivedfromoccurrence

Project details

Project title: Enhancing the accessibility of biodiversity data in Malawi
Personnel: Johnston N.G.B. Steward
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The area of the submontane evergreen forest on Thyolo mountain is well known and can be seen from the Blantyre-Thyolo road
Design description: The first study was conducted from May 1980 to April 1981 in the 8 riparian forests of upper Thyolo where 15 species of evergreen forests birds were found that had been thought of as confined to the submontane evergreen forests of Thyolo mountain.

Data published through GBIF: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/resource?r=checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Avifauna associated with evergreen forests in Upper Thyolo

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Thyolo is one of the districts in the Southern part of Malawi
Coordinates: 16°9'39.6''S and 15°59'27.6''S Latitude; 35°0'18''E and 35°16'19.2''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Collection name: Birds of Evergreen Forest Of Thyolo Mountain

Methods

Method step description: The data was collected through observation using a binocular. The coordinated of were not recorded but the data was collected at a lowest altitude of 900m and a highest altitude of 1,462m about see level
Study extent description: The study was conducted on the evergreen forest of Thyolo mountain whose forest cover is divided into submontane and riparian forests.
Sampling description: In the upper Thyolo district there were several unspoilt riparian forests. They had never been researched by an ornithologist. In April 1990, the rare green-headed Oriole was unexpectedly recorded there. This led in the year May to April 1981 to through researching eight riparian forests in upper Thyolo.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://196.32.215.240:8081/ipt/archive.do?r=checklist-of-evergreen-forest-birds-in-thyolo
Publication date of data: 2022-05-31
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-09-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset