Caribbean Shorebirds eBird Raw Data

All data used in this assessment came from the World eBird Basic Dataset (Sullivan et al., 2009; publicly available at ebird.org/data/download). We downloaded the data from eBird on January 21, 2020 and filtered it using the R package ‘Auk’ (Strimas-Mackey, Miller &amp; Hochachka, 2018) to include only records of interest (filtered by country and species). The result was a list of all eBird shorebird records in the insular Caribbean.<br>We filtered to include the following countries:("Jamaica", "Cuba", "The Bahamas", "Haiti", "Dominican Republic", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Dominica", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "Barbados", "Grenada", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Anguilla", "Aruba", "Bahamas", "Caribbean Netherlands", "Cayman Islands", "Guadeloupe", "Martinique", "Sint Maarten", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Virgin Islands (British)", "Virgin Islands (U.S.)", "Puerto Rico", "Saint Martin (French part)", "Turks and Caicos Islands", "Curaçao", "Saint Barthélemy", "Montserrat")<br>We filtered to include the following species:("Black-necked Stilt", "American Avocet", "American Oystercatcher", "Black-bellied Plover", "American Golden-Plover", "Pacific Golden-Plover", "Snowy Plover", "Wilson's Plover", "Semipalmated Plover", "Piping Plover", "Killdeer", "Upland Sandpiper", "Whimbrel", "Long-billed Curlew", "Hudsonian Godwit", "Marbled Godwit", "Ruddy Turnstone", "Red Knot", "Stilt Sandpiper", "Sanderling", "Dunlin", "Baird's Sandpiper", "Least Sandpiper", "White-rumped Sandpiper", "Buff-breasted Sandpiper", "Pectoral Sandpiper", "Semipalmated Sandpiper", "Western Sandpiper", "Short-billed Dowitcher", "Long-billed Dowitcher", "Wilson's Snipe", "Spotted Sandpiper", "Solitary Sandpiper", "Wandering Tattler", "Greater Yellowlegs", "Willet", "Lesser Yellowlegs", "Wilson's Phalarope", "Red-necked Phalarope", "Red Phalarope", "Double-striped Thick-knee", "Southern Lapwing", "Collared Plover", "Northern Jacana", "Wattled Jacana", "South American Snipe")<br>We dropped the following columns in our filter:("global_unique_identifier", "last_edited_date", "taxonomic_order", "category", "subspecies_common_name", "breeding_bird_atlas_code", "breeding_bird_atlas_category", "age_sex", "country_code", "state_code","county", "county code", "usfws_code", "atlas_block", "locality_type", "time_observations_started", "project_code", "all_species_reported", "has_media", "trip_comments", "species_comments")