Date (Creation)

2025-02-13

Date (Revision)

2026-09-14

Date (Publication)

2026-10-15

Title

Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation)

2016-05-19

Code

https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2922

Citation identifier

http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2922

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Eric Stienen, Wouter Courtens, Koen Devos (n.d.). Marine bird abundance Report MSFD 2024. (2) Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen (n.d.). Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea. (3) Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen (n.d.). Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea Report MSFD 2024. (4) OSPAR assessment on Marine Bird Abundance.

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)		info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)		info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher

Keywords

• Oceanographic geographical features

• Federal government

• Reporting INSPIRE

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

European Legislation Identifier

• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)

Marine Regions

• Belgian part of the North Sea
• Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

• marine monitoring
• Marine Strategy Framework Directive

INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

• Directive 2008/56/EC

NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0

• Biological diversity maintained

INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts

• Oceanographic Geographical Features

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

• National

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

• Environment

High-value dataset categories

• Earth observation and environment

Eionet Central Data Repository

• (Criteria) D1C2 - Population abundance

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No conditions apply to access and use

Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access.

Use limitation

No conditions apply to use.

Classification

Unclassified

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Language

English

Topic category

• Oceans

gml32:beginPosition

2020-01-01

Reference system identifier

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
text/html	Unknown
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application/vnd.ms-excel	Unknown

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

In the port of Zeebrugge, all nests containing one or more eggs are counted; data on other coastal breeding sites are (sometimes rough) estimates of the number of breeding pairs. At-sea abundance is assessed through ship-based counts following the standardized European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) protocol (Tasker et al., 1984). Monitoring is carried out by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO): breeding-colony counts since 1997, ship-based at-sea counts since 1992 (partly through dedicated research projects, e.g. the WinMon offshore-windfarm-effects programme, 2005-present); contributing to the OSPAR Coordinated Environmental Monitoring Programme and the EU Birds Directive. In-situ nest counts (land/beach survey); ship-based visual seabird counts (ESAS protocol), from ships of opportunity and dedicated research surveys. Aggregation of nest/breeding-pair counts and at-sea count data; contribution to the OSPAR EcoQO assessment.

Metadata

File identifier

bmdc.be:dataset:2922 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-10-15T15:36:24.176Z

Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German