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Windmill Islands - Surveys of bird colonies 1998/99 by Jonny Stark and Jeroen Creuwels

Entry ID: windmill_flyingbirds_gis160

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Summary

Abstract: This dataset contains bird data from 1998/99 field work in the Windmill Islands by Jonny Stark and Jeroen Creuwels. The locations are Frazier Islands, Ardery Island and Casey Station.
Polygon data represents colony locations.
Point data represents nest locations.
Attributes include the common name of the species.
The data are a subset of the data available for downloading, the data with dataset id = 160. Each feature has a Qinfo value which can be used to access data quality information (see link below).

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Download flying bird data

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -66.0

S: -67.0

E: 111.0

W: 110.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1998-01-01

Stop Date: 1999-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Windmill Islands

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Platform

FIELD INVESTIGATION

FIELD SURVEYS

Quality The locations of some colonies on Nelly Island (Frazier Islands), a South Polar Skua nest site on Dewart Island (Frazier Islands) and some South Polar Skua nest sites on Ardery Island were eyed in using as a guide field survey sketches by Jeroen Creuwels in June 1999. The locations of some further colonies on the Frazier Islands, a Southern Giant-petrel nest site on Dewart Island (Frazier ...

Access Constraints The data are available from Related URLs.
Southern giant petrel colonies are excluded due to sensitivity to disturbance.
Contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for access to the southern giant petrel colony data.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Ancillary Keywords

BIRD

COLONY

NEST

WINDMILL

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia