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Macquarie Island Brown Skua breeding and diet data

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This dataset contains: 1) count data from a series of surveys of brown skua nest numbers and breeding success conducted from 2008/09 to 2017/18; 2) historic skua nest count data and concurrent estimates of rabbit abundance (1974/75 to 2009/10); 3) stable isotope data from feather samples taken from skua chicks during the 2017/18 season to compare stable isotope ratios between different feather types; 4) stable isotope data from feather samples taken from skua chicks from 2008/09 to 2017/18; 5) a small dataset of stable isotope data from skua prey tissue samples; 6) the nest locations of skuas surveyed in the seasons 2009/10, 2012/13 and 2017/18.

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Title Macquarie Island Brown Skua breeding and diet data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fde223d4-26b6-4f3b-a0f7-717715c7152a
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/10/1974 - 30/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Macquarie Island Brown Skua breeding and diet data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/macquarie-island-brown-skua-breeding-and-diet-data