Dataset

RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_T01 Seabird Observations, Australia (2017)

OBIS Australia MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Seabird and incidental cetacean and seal sightings were recorded during daylight hours from a transit from Sydney to Broome, Oct 2017. Observations were made every ten minutes in the forward quadrant. There were 410 observations from 20 species of birds and 1 cetaceans. Each species has been linked where possible to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org). Furher details at http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search#!c2d03fae-9b49-4bb1-b364-f1651678c166. Voyage details (metadata, projects, other datasets either online or as downloads, publications and reports, events, maps etc) can be accessed at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_T01 If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.

Citation: Woehler E, OBIS Australia (2025). RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_T01 Seabird Observations, Australia (2017). Version 1.14. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=in2017_t01_wov&v=1.14

Published: August 14, 2025 at 06:06

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=in2017_t01_wov

663
occurrence records
5,394
measurements and facts
40
taxa
32
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
scientificName 5
0.8%
scientificNameID 9
1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 9
1.4%
NOT_MARINE 3
0.5%
MARINE_UNSURE 2
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data