Colorado Parks & Wildlife - Species Data - Osprey Nest Sites
Creator(s):
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Biologists, District Wildlife Managers, and Researchers
Description:
OspreyNestsites is an ESRI SDE Feature Class showing a 0.5 mile buffer zone around active, inactive, destroyed, undetermined, and unknown Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) nests in Colorado. Refer to the metadata for the Status attribute field for activity definitions. 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).