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

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Birds captured and released at Ordway, complete and uncleaned

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 15,829 observations on the following 26 variables:

bogus

Timestamp

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

Year

year of capture

Day

day of capture

Month

month of capture

CaptureTime

time of capture

SpeciesName

Sex

Age

BandNumber

TrapID

Weather

BandingReport

RecaptureYN

RecaptureMonth

RecaptureDay

Condition

Release

Comments

DataEntryPerson

Weight

WingChord

Temperature

RecaptureOriginal

RecapturePrevious

TailLength

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.

Source

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

See Also

'OrdwaySpeciesNames'

Examples

data(OrdwayBirds)
str(OrdwayBirds)

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