Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific by Neil Cheshire (1971-1974)
Citation
Cheshire N (2025). Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific by Neil Cheshire (1971-1974). Version 1.3. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nc_1971_1974&v=1.3 https://doi.org/10.15468/w696e3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-14.Description
Historic seabird observations around New Zealand coastal waters and the south-western Pacific observed and recorded by Neil Cheshire on a variety of coastal and ocean commercial shipping vessels. Observations typically 2 to 3 times per day for up to 2 hours. Location and weather details (air and sea temperature, cloud cover, wind speed and direction and atmospheric pressure) were recorded at the start period. Original data recording sheets can be downloaded at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=5321. Data entered by OBIS Australia and where possible matched to WoRMS taxa.
Taxonomic Coverages
Seabirds
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Avescommon name: Birds rank: class
Geographic Coverages
New Zealand coastal waters, Tasman Sea and South West Pacific
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Neil Cheshireoriginator
position: Observer
Private
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au
Neil Cheshire
metadata author
position: Observer
Private
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au
OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au
OBIS Australia
administrative point of contact
position: OBIS Australia Data manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au