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RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V02 Seabird Observations

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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Seabird and incidental cetacean and seal sightings were recorded during daylight hours during the moorings deployment at the SOTS site, southwest of Tasmania, March 2017. Observations were made every ten minutes in the forward quadrant. There were 1200 observations from 38 species of birds, 3 cetacean species and one seal. The commonest bird species were Puffinus tenuirostris and Pachyptila turtur. Each species has been linked where possible to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org). The data has been published to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS https://obis.org).

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Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V02 Seabird Observations
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a62455ad-160e-47f9-87a1-291c538deafe
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/02/2021
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V02 Seabird Observations". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/rv-investigator-voyage-in2017_v02-seabird-observations