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RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_T01 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 transit from Sydney to Broome, Western Australia in March 2017 Observations were made every ten minutes in the forward quadrant. There were 657 observations from 30 species of birds, 1 cetacean, 5 seals and one turtle. The commonest bird species were Sterna anaethetus and Puffinus carneipes. 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_T01 Seabird Observations
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/9c141254-040d-46b0-aab8-21b0397922e1
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_T01 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_t01-seabird-observations