BalticSea:Birds Wintering Areas

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Birds Wintering Areas

File:Layer Birds Wintering Areas.png
Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Subcategory	Sensitive areas
Editable	No
Data type	Raster
Types or Values
Low probability
High probability

Description

Areas where birds spend winter

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Data Source

HELCOM

Original Title

Wintering areas for birds

Description

"This map presents the Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with reported wintering areas for birds. The spatial data on SPAs were gathered from the HELCOM contracting parties by Lund University, Sweden. In the data, the countries also indicated whether the sites were designated mainly due to wintering or breeding birds in the area. For Denmark, the information was obtained from standard forms for Natura 2000 sites. For Denmark, the data was updated after review process 20 February 2017. For Germany, the areas that were reported as “NA”(=information not available) were included in both breeding and wintering area maps. Many of the SPAs are both wintering and breeding areas. For the Baltic Sea Impact Index, the data was converted to 1 km x 1km grid cells."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (2021-08-26).

Creation Date

2016-04-06

Methodology

Implemented directly.