Dataset

At-Sea Observations of Seabirds 1969 to 1990, Tasman Sea, New Zealand and Australian waters

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This is a dataset of at-sea observations of seabirds dating from 1969 to 1990. The data was recorded using guidelines for the Australasian Seabird Mapping Scheme and counts seabirds seen from a ship during a 10 minute period. The data includes geolocations of the sightings, bird species, numbers and behaviour, observer and ship name, and observation date and time. It has been built from data elements extracted by Te Papa staff from the at-sea bird observations recorded in the logbooks of Captain John Arthur Francis Jenkins (1928-1989) and count cards held by the convenor of the Australasian Seabird Mapping Scheme. Metadata record is https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/at-sea-observations-of-seabirds-1969-to-1990 The logbooks of Captain Jenkins are held by the Archives of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

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Published: June 06, 2022 at 12:59

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=asms_nz

Victoria Leachman
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

24,323
occurrence records
54,891
measurements and facts
102
taxa
97
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 15
0.1%
decimalLongitude 15
0.1%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 796
3.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 641
2.6%
NO_COORD 15
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data