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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
Contacts:
Neil Cheshire
Private
OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| decimalLatitude | 29 |
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| decimalLongitude | 29 |
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| scientificName | 4 |
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| scientificNameID | 19 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
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| NO_COORD | 29 |
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| NO_MATCH | 19 |
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| ON_LAND | 15 |
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| DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH | 9 |
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