Maine Arctic Tern Colony Polygons

Coverage name: gis/gom/habstudy/species/bird/seabird/ternarctic/mearte2_83.shp

Geographic extent: Maine

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Automation Agency: USFWS

Source of Data: Brad's 'best guess' of typical breeding populations [sni99.dbf in gis/me/mdifw].

Description: - took all arte and cote islands; scored hsi = 10 for arte, 5 for cote ('potential' nesting habitats). then use [Maine seabird island] icensus.dbf to supplement with historic (used since 1985) arte used islands; since these were abandoned scored them 4.

Data Restrictions: none

Status:

Projection: NAD 83 UTM meters, zone 19

Format: shapefile

Keywords: Arctic tern