Name: Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait
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Over 645 sightings of cetacean groups (of one and more individuals) have been recorded in the Black Sea, Azov Sea and Kerch Strait during the period from 1993 to 2010 inclusive.

Citation

Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait (CetSiBS). 2011. Dataset assembled by A.Birkun, Jr. and S.Krivokhizhin. EMODNet.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:55

License

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

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=birkun_cetacea_sighting

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=birkun_cetacea_sighting

Contacts

Alexei Birkun
Brema Laboratory

Brema Laboratory
Brema Laboratory

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Sergey Krivokhizhin
Brema Laboratory

879

total submitted occurrences

879

accepted occurrences

860

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	879	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	879	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	879	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		879	100.0%
ON_LAND		11	1.3%

Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data