Colorado Parks & Wildlife - Species Data - White Pelican Foraging Area
Creator(s):
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Biologists, District Wildlife Managers, and Researchers
Description:
WhPelicanForagingArea is an ESRI SDE Feature Class showing Foraging Areas for White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhyncos) in Colorado. Foraging Areas are defined as those bodies of water used by a minimum of 15 birds on four days out of seven from April 15 through August 15. This information was derived from field personnel. A variety of data capture techniques were used including drawing on mylar overlays at 1:50,000 scale USGS county mapsheets and implementation of the SmartBoard Interactive Whiteboard using stand-up, real-time digitizing at various scales (Cowardin, M., M. Flenner. March 2003. Maximizing Mapping Resources. GeoWorld 16(3):32-35).