Dataset

Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific by Neil Cheshire (1971-1974)

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Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific observed and recorded by Neil Cheshire on a variety of coastal and ocean commercial shipping vessels. Observations typically 2 to 3 times per day for up to 2 hours. Location and weather details (air and sea temperature, cloud cover, wind speed and direction and atmospheric pressure) were recorded at the start period. Original data recording sheets can be downloaded at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=5321. Data entered by OBIS Australia and where possible matched to WoRMS taxa.

Citation: Cheshire N (2025). Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific by Neil Cheshire (1971-1974). Version 1.4. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nc_1971_1974&v=1.4

Published: December 29, 2025 at 05:06

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

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nc_1971_1974

1,177
occurrence records
5,550
measurements and facts
69
taxa
59
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 29
2.5%
decimalLongitude 29
2.5%
scientificName 4
0.3%
scientificNameID 19
1.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_COORD 29
2.5%
NO_MATCH 19
1.6%
ON_LAND 15
1.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 9
0.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data