Name: Seabird 2000
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The Seabird 2000 dataset is a full census of all of the breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland. The data was gathered by over 1000 surveyors mainly between the years 1999 and 2003 from both coastal and inland colonies.

Citation

Mitchell, P.I., S.F. Newton, N. Ratcliffe & T.E. Dunn. Seabird 2000. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/ibm5hb

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:42

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=nbn_ga000089

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=nbn_ga000089

Contacts

Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

24,193

total submitted occurrences

24,193

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	24,193		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	24,193		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		24,193	100.0%
ON_LAND		10,641	44.0%

Seabird 2000

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data