Ramsar sites are wetlands of international importance designated under the Ramsar Convention. This dataset contains details for all qualifying bird species (of international and national importance) for all designated Ramsar sites within the UK and its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. The majority of UKs sites are established for internationally important populations of non breeding waterfowl though some sites have no qualifying ornithological interest. The dataset presents data used on the Ramsar Information Sheets compiled for all Ramsar sites. This dataset contains the following columns.
SITENAME
SITECODE
COUNTRY
SITE STATUS - always classified/designated
INTEREST STATUS - either internationally or nationally important
NOWAK CODE - standard species code used in international reporting
BIRDNAME
LAY_TITLE - common name
SEASON
COUNT
UNITS - individuals or pairs
Pop UNITS count and unit together eg 4345 i
YEAR - count period for bird counts
CRITERIA_DESC - description of the population
proportion - proportion ie % of total population
assemb component - Y = component of assemblage
X_COORDINATE - easting
Y_COORDINATE - northing
Note that Overseas Territories Birds are not included here - details of these are available within the dataset "UK Ramsar sites"