Description
Records of 100 thousand birds ringed and recaptured by volunteers across the Capital Region.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All files were recovered; 56 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3be28ae58eb6efd9fb3b73a6d59602453edd33bef177c46faca1e3e9683523c2- Last verified
- Sep 12, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Capital Region Ornithological Society, Bird ringing records, Capital Region, 1983–1999 (1983–1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40227.