Dataset

NT Waterbird Colonies Species, Northern Territory, Australia (1990-1999)

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Quantitative ground and aerial surveys of shorebirds, and significant breeding colonies for the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT), sourced from the Parks and Wildlife Service of the Northern Territory (PWSNT). At time of collating this report, some gaps were apparent in the data provided. Data exist from 1990-1999, but records from 2000-2003 are missing.Note: The OzCoasts platform and associated data services have been decommissioned. Links to the former OzCoasts services have been removed where they are no longer available. For enquiries regarding archived OzCoasts datasets or associated files, please contact coasts@csiro.au

Citation
Moesender C (2026). NT Waterbird Colonies Species, Northern Territory, Australia (1990-1999). Version 1.9. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=acef_waterbird_colonies&v=1.9
Published
August 13, 2026 at 05:50
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=acef_waterbird_colonies
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=acef_waterbird_colonies

Contacts

Chris Moesender
CSIRO

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

20,944
total submitted occurrences
13,856
accepted occurrences
6
taxa
6
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 1
0.0%
scientificNameID 4,600
22.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 14,457
69.0%
NO_MATCH 4,600
22.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 4,600
22.0%
NOT_MARINE 2,488
11.9%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data