Brief description
A survey of seabirds off the coast between Port Lincoln, South Australia and Fremantle, Western Australia during December 1994 was conducted on the voyage 11/94 of the CSIRO Oceanographic Research Vessel Franklin. Mean abundances were calculated from a series of 10 minute counts by a human observer through the trip, with sea surface temperature, salinity, water depth, current speed and direction, sea conditions and visibility also measured.The following birds were recorded: Wandering Albatross; Royal Albatross; Shy\tAlbatross; Black-browed Albatross; Yellow-nosed\tAlbatross; Sooty Albatross; Northern Giant; Blue\tPetrel; Great-winged Petrel; Gould's Petrel; White-headed Petrel; White-chinned\tPetrel; Flesh-footed Shearwater; Short-tailed Shearwater; Wedge-tailed Shearwater; Fluttering Shearwater; Little Shearwater; Wilson's\tStorm-Petrel; White-faced Storm-Petrel; Black-bellied Storm-Petrel; Australasian Gannet; Black-faced Cormorant; Pomarine Jaeger; Silver Gull; Pacific Gull; Crested Tern; Common Tern; Bridled Tern; Sooty Tern
Full description
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/archives/keyword_list.html -text: true
Subjects
Anous stolidus |
Diomedea chlororhynchos |
Fregetta tropica |
Larus novaehollandiae |
Larus pacificus |
Marine Biology |
Marine Birds |
Morus serrator |
Oceans |
Pelagodroma marina |
Petrel Macronectes |
Phalacrocorax fuscescens |
Phoebetria fusca |
Pterodroma lessonii |
Pterodroma leucoptera |
Pterodroma macroptera |
Puffinus assimilis |
Puffinus carneipes |
Puffinus gavia |
Puffinus pacificus |
Puffinus tenuirostris |
Stercorarius pomarinus |
Sterna anaethetus |
Sterna bergii |
Sterna fuscata |
Sterna hirundo |
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Identifiers
- Local : seabirds-encountered-at-sea-off-the-south-western-coast-of-australia-december-1994
- URI : data.gov.au/data/dataset/90b78026-283a-48ab-87b2-ac2608851fcd
