OrdwayBirds: Birds captured and released at Ordway, complete and uncleaned

In dtkaplan/DCF: Distributing materials for the DCF course

Description

The historical record of birds captured and released at the Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area, a 278-acre preserve in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, owned and managed by Macalester College.

Usage

data(OrdwayBirds)

Format

A data frame with 15829 observations on the bird's species, size, date found, and band number.

Timestamp indicates when the data were entered into an electronic record, not anything about the bird being described.

Details

There are many extraneous levels of variables such as species. Part of the purpose of this data set is to teach about data cleaning.

A translation table for cleaning the species names is in OrdwaySpecies.r

Source

Jerald Dosch, Dept. of Biology, Macalester College: the manager of the Study Area.

Examples

data(OrdwayBirdsOrig)

dtkaplan/DCF documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:57 p.m.