Data for Determining Age of Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) from External Characteristics, Alaska and Canada, 2007-2015

Description

These data describe an exercise in which known age and sex class of 100 Barrow’s goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica), determined by expert examination bursa and plumage, was contrasted with age and sex classes estimated from photos by trained observers.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P92GRT3C
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC312.xml

Tags

  • environment
  • indian-arm
  • alaska
  • age-composition
  • field-sampling
  • plumage
  • canada
  • biota
  • migratory-birds
  • birds
  • usgs-asc312
  • ducks-geese-swans
  • terrestrial-ecosystems
  • prince-william-sound
  • population-dynamics
  • stephens-passage
  • animals-vertebrates
  • british-columbia
  • wildlife-biology
  • sexing-plants-amp-animals
  • barrows-goldeneye
  • waterfowl
  • bucephala-islandica

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