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Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950
Joseph B
Burant
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Researcher
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0000-0002-0713-3100
Wietske E
Oosterkamp
Netherlands Institure of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Research assistent data
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0009-0008-7113-2509
Pratima
Thapa
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Research assistent
Wageningen
NL
Thijs
van Hofslot
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Student
Wageningen
NL
Marcel E
Visser
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Head of department
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0000-0002-1456-1939
Stefan J G
Vriend
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Data manager
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0000-0002-9006-5988
Wietske E
Oosterkamp
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Research assistent data
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0009-0008-7113-2509
2025-12-19
eng
Historical breeding bird occurrence data collected by the Dutch Plantenziektekundige Dienst from 1922 to 1950. All data were originally collected by volunteers throughout the Netherlands by observation of nestboxes and wild nests. It includes 40.721 records across 28 years of 105 species.
birds presence; breeding birds; ecology; phenology; nest site; history
EnvThes: https://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/en/
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
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The Netherlands in the early twentieth century
3.357
7.237
53.437
50.771
1922-03-17
1950-05-27
class
Avies
notPlanned
Joseph B
Burant
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
Researcher
Wageningen
NL
AnE_Data@nioo.knaw.nl
0000-0002-0713-3100
Source files were scanned and digitized using the pre-trained Transkribus model 'The Text Titan I' for text recognition, the 'Universal Lines' model for layout recognition, and a machine learning model trained on 80 manually transcribed pages for table recognition. The raw text output was cleaned with manual review and automation using Python with pandas and regex libraries.
Datafication included standardizing area and observer names. All areas were manually geographically coded using historical Esri maps of the Netherlands. Species taxonomy was mapped to the vernacular names using the taxize package in R.
Quality control included reviewing suspicious values (e.g. outliers, improbable and impossible values) against the source material. The data was furhter validated against the original reports from the Plantenziektekundige Dienst (ongoing).
various areas in the Netherlands
Volunteers checked nests in nestboxes and a small number of wild nests. They recorded lay date, clutch size and brood size. These data were gathered into a physical dataset by the Plantenziektekundige Dienst.
Nestkast 1.0
Joseph B
Burant
0000-0002-0713-3100
2025-12-09T23:44:17.748+00:00
dataset
Burant J B, Oosterkamp W E, Thapa P, van Hofslot T, Visser M E, Vriend S J G (2025). Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950. Version 1.0. NIOO-KNAW. Occurrence dataset. https://tryout.nlbif.nl/resource?r=nestkast_1&v=1.0
Historical breeding bird data from a national citizen science nest box monitoring initiative in the Netherlands, 1922–1950
UTF-8
csv
V1
https://doi.org/10.34894/ZOAZP8
https://tryout.nlbif.nl/resource?id=nestkast_1/v1.5.xml