Full description
Seabird and incidental cetacean and seal sightings were recorded during daylight hours during the transit from Hobart to Sydney, May 2016. This voyage was used as a trial of acquiring observations from the RV Investigator observation deck and testing the data recording system.Observations were made every ten minutes in the forward quadrant.
There were 393 observations from 33 species of birds, 3 cetaceans and one seal. The commonest bird species were Pachyptila turtur, Thalassarche cauta, Sterna bergii and Morus serrator. 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).
Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Species identifications were recorded using the bird list called Working List of Australian Birds (WLAB) v.1.3 from Birdlife Australia (http://birdlife.org.au/conservation/science/taxonomy). Cetacean and seal species have been added as required using WoRMS taxa names. The data recording tool allows for ad-hoc names to be added which can be taxonomically resolved post-voyage.
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Subjects
Coastal Waters (Australia) | New South Wales Coast, NSW |
Coastal Waters (Australia) | Tasmania Coast East and Southeast, TAS |
Earth Science | Biological Classification |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Vertebrates | Birds |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Vertebrates | Mammals |
Marine National Facility |
Research Transit: IN2016_T02 |
Ship: Investigator (RV) |
oceans |
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(Data available via Data Trawler)
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/dataset.cfm?survey=IN2016_T02&data_type=wov![]()
Identifiers
- global : cd4ad38b-760f-4c2e-bd69-6c1786725f9c
