Dataset

Western Australian Seabirds

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) Seabird Island Database includes all available literature records since the publication of The Handbook of Australian Seabirds (Serventy et al. 1971) (plus selected references prior to that date), data from our own and colleagues' field note books, data from the Birds Australia Nest Records Scheme (up to 1985) and information provided by scientists and naturalists via a Seabird Breeding Islands Database Form. The Database is designed to be used by conservation managers, scientists and naturalists and depends on the contributions of interested people. Data downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/dr792) and taxa matched to the World Register of Marine Species

Citation: Burdidge A (2023): Western Australian Seabirds. v1.1. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=wa_seabirds_obis&v=1.1

Published: July 14, 2023 at 00:37

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

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

4,564
occurrence records
22
taxa
21
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4,535
99.4%
decimalLatitude 2,107
46.2%
decimalLongitude 2,107
46.2%
eventDate 1,687
37.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_COORD 2,107
46.2%
ON_LAND 1,582
34.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 74
1.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 11
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data