Seabird observations by Neil Cheshire (ships officer) from the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking. Records have been digitised from paper recording sheets that are available upon request.

Citation: Cheshire N, OBIS Australia (2025). Seabird observations in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean from voyages of the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking (2005-2007). Version 1.8. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds_oceanic_viking&v=1.8

Published: December 29, 2025 at 05:09

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

Neil Cheshire
Private

OBIS Australia
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

2,492

occurrence records

9,121

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
decimalLatitude	34	1.4%
decimalLongitude	34	1.4%
scientificNameID	2	0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_COORD	34	1.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	6	0.2%
ON_LAND	6	0.2%
NO_MATCH	2	0.1%
NOT_MARINE	1	0.0%

Seabird observations in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean from voyages of the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking (2005-2007)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data