Name: Visual sightings from Song of the Whale 1993-2013
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

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

License

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

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1158

Contacts

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

total submitted occurrences

7,022

accepted occurrences

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