R: Sea Bird Counts

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## Sea Bird Counts

### Description

Numbers of sightings of different species of seabirds by year 1986 - 2005 at E. Sitkalidak, Uganik, Uyak, and W. Sitkalidak by people affiliated with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

### Usage

    data(seabird)

### Format

A data frame with 3793 observations on the following 22 variables.

BAGO, BLSC, COME, COMU, CORM, HADU, HOGR, LOON, MAMU, OLDS, PIGU, RBME, RNGR, SUSC, WWSC

  integer count of the numbers of sightings of each species by transect by year

Year

  integer year, 1986 - 2005

Site

  Integer codes for `Bay`: 10 = Uyak, 20 = Uganik, 60 = E. Sitkalidak, 70 = W. Sitkalidak

Transect

  Integer code (101 - 749) for the specific plot of ground observed

Temp

  a numeric vector

ObservCond

  a factor with levels `Average`, `Excellent`, `Fair`, `Good`, and `Ideal`.

Bay

  a factor with levels `E. Sitkalidak` `Uganik` `Uyak` `W. Sitkalidak`

ObservCondFactor3

  a factor with levels `ExcellentIdeal`, `FairAverage`, and `Good`. These combine levels from `ObservCond`.

### Details

Data provided by the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

### Source

Zwiefelhofer, D., Reynolds, J. H., and Keim, M. (2008) Population trends and annual density estimates for select wintering seabird species on Kodiak Island, Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Technical Report, no. 08-00x

### References

Ramsay, James O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer B. (2009) Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab, Springer, New York (esp. ch. 10)

### Examples

    data(seabird)
    ## maybe str(seabird) ; plot(seabird) ...

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