Circus maurus species monitoring report in the Engie's Excelsior Wind Farm, South Africa 2020-2025.

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by ENGIE on Oct 9, 2025 ENGIE
Publication date:
9 October 2025
Published by:
ENGIE
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The Dataset gathers raw data retrieved from the avifauna impact study performed in December 2020 to May 2025 on the Excelsior Wind Farm, located in Swellendam Western Cape in South Africa. It aims at monitoring and reporting on the activity and behavior of the bird populations (Circus maurus) present on site. Each row in the table corresponds to a field observation of a single individual of the bird species observed. 

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 764 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is ENGIE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4c0b21c4-0b84-4d72-a6b4-4392655e7125.  ENGIE publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Clarissa Mars
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biodiversity Team Lead
Engie
  • Excelsior Wind Farm, Uitkyk Farm, Swellendam, 6740
6740 Swellendam
Western Cape
ZA
  • 083 787 5681
Clarissa Mars
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biodiversity Team Leader
Engie
  • Excelsior Wind Farm, Uitkyk Farm, Swellendam, 6740
6740 Swellendam
Western Cape
ZA
  • 083 787 5681

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 4c0b21c4-0b84-4d72-a6b4-4392655e7125
https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=2025_southafrica_excelsior_avifauna