Distance Sampling of Bird Abundance in grassland at York Univeristy

This dataset was collected September 30th 2015 at the grasslot surrounding Stong pond, behind Osgood Law School at York University, Toronto ON. The weather was clear skies at 20 °C. The experiement had a groups of 4 conducting the transects, split into teams of 2eachs to be more time efficient. One team recorded 2 transects while the other did the last one. The group observed birds abundance and distribution in their natural habitat of the grassland. The original experiment involved recording frequency of birds, species, wind speed, the distance between the bird and the transect between different habitats at a higher transect rate. Due to time constraints, the group was only able to conduct the experiment in the grassland and not in the woodlot, also 3 transects were done instead of 5. To record the wind speed, the Beaufort scale was to be originally used. Since the two teams seperatly recorded each transect, there were some irregularities between them as example, the first team recorded the gender of ducks since it was evident but the second team did not. Both teams spotted similar distribution of species.