Original provider: International Fund for Animal Welfare, Song of the Whale Team Dataset credits: Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International

Citation: Boisseau, O. 2025. Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013. Version 1.5.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/8fd040c4.

Published: October 09, 2025 at 15:04

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1158

Oliver Boisseau
Song of the Whale team, MCR International

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

ACCOBAMS and WDCS
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

7,022

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	7,022		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	7,022		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	7,022	100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	19	0.3%
ON_LAND	1	0.0%

Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data