Drop the file. We say what it is.

What we read, what we refused and why, and one file back.

  • A species list becomes its species at risk, by act and edition.
  • An occurrence table becomes a Darwin Core archive GBIF's validator indexes.
  • A lab report becomes every result in one table, certificate and page on each row.
  • A site boundary becomes the listed species and critical habitat it touches.
  • A Survey123 export becomes your records joined to their stations, codes decoded.

No file? Try 88 published Québec bird records

Or paste names, one per line.

Not yet: results compared to a criterion; publishing on GBIF for you.

Ten registers and three assessments

Instrument Where Taxa Edition
Species at Risk Act, Schedule 1Canada6712026-02-26
Threatened & vulnerable species — faunaQuébec652026-04-15
Threatened & vulnerable species — floraQuébec852026-04-15
CITES Appendices I–IIIGlobal1,4972026-03-05
CMS Appendices I–II (migratory species)Global5232026-06-27
Protected Species in Ontario List (O. Reg. 60/26)Ontario1632026-03-30
List of Species at Risk (N.B. Reg. 2013-38)New Brunswick952026-07-29
Threatened, Endangered & Extirpated Species (M.R. 25/98)Manitoba652022-06-24
Wildlife Regulation, Schedule 6 (AR 143/97)Alberta362026-08-12
Categorized List of Species at Risk (N.S. Reg. 146/2017)Nova Scotia692017-04-12
IUCN Red List — global assessmentsGlobal178,0062026-1
BC Conservation Data Centre, BC List — provincial assessmentsBritish Columbia25,0782026-05-05
COSEWIC — national status assessmentsCanada1,1462025-12-05

No account? Your file teaches the reader.

Sign in to keep it private. Only a scientific name leaves, to GBIF's backbone. Never your coordinates.

The detail

▸ What an edition means

Every screen cites the edition it used. A list screened last year is not screened today. The last three rows are assessments, not laws: each is an expert judgement of risk, not a protection and not a statement about your site. IUCN's category is global, read from the GBIF-hosted copy of Red List version 2026-1 under IUCN terms of use; COSEWIC assesses and the Governor in Council lists, so a COSEWIC status is not a Schedule 1 listing.

▸ What else it does, and where it stops

Two entrances are announced above. These three the door also does, and they are not yet announced: they have not passed the bar that lets a job be offered by name, so they have no entrance of their own yet.

  • audit an archive you have already published, and say what GBIF indexes anyway
  • screen a project site against the Québec sources we hold
  • the IFC PS6 names a lender's reviewer asks for

Where it stops:

  • a site outside the Québec extracts is not screened: we say which source could not cover it, never that it found nothing
  • our registers and site sources are Canadian — a project elsewhere is told so rather than measured against the wrong law
  • a long list is checked in full, and the last of its names land a moment after the answer
▸ What it will not do

Every refusal carries a code and a reason. We never invent a value, a licence or a contact. A column its own values cannot settle becomes a question, not a guess.

  • Publishing on GBIF for you: we hand you the archive and its eml.xml; registering it takes a publishing organisation endorsed by a GBIF node.
  • Personal data — names, contacts, identifiers: refused, never stored.
  • Keeping a signed-in drop: without an account we keep what we read to teach the reader, names and contacts removed first and a protected species' coordinates coarsened to about 10 km, never republished.
▸ Formats

CSV · Excel · PDF · Darwin Core · shapefile · GeoPackage · GeoJSON · KML · DXF · a zip of any of them

Anything else, we say so in 30 seconds and charge nothing.

▸ An archive with no eml.xml

GBIF wants five facts before it reads a row. Drop your eml.xml or archive and we say what fails against GBIF’s own profile — and which of those GBIF indexes anyway. Answer what is left and take the document.

▸ Signed in

Your records are encrypted per account and erasable on demand, with a receipt.