Kluane Ecological Monitoring Project (KEMP) - Point count surveys of breeding songbirds

Kluane Ecological Monitoring Project (KEMP) - Point count surveys of breeding songbirds is an open dataset from Environment and Climate Change Canada with 10 files (CSV, HTML, KMZ, TXT, ZIP); catalogue record updated 2026-10-14. On CanQuery you can open 5 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Purpose: To monitor breeding songbird populations on long-term monitoring sites in order to detect population trends and estimate annual variation. Point counts were conducted on Kluane Ecological Monitoring Program (KEMP) study sites, which are laid out in transects. A single round of 75m-radius point counts was conducted at each site, each year. Each count was comprised of two, five-minute periods to total 10 minutes. During each count, all birds detected by sight or sound within 75 m of the observer were recorded and positioned on a point count mapsheet. Detections were assigned to one of five distance bands (0 to 25m, 25 to 50m, 50 to 75m, 75 to 100m, beyond 100m). Complete bilingual metadata including detailed survey design, protocols and data dictionaries are available in downloadable files. CWS-North DatasetID: 060_0

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Resources

10

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-10-14