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Occurrence record: Eggs:E01924

Preserved specimen of Sterna (Sterna) paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 | Arctic Tern recorded on 1948-05-31
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Eggs"
Catalog number E01924
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Eggs:E01924
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Egg(s)
Sex Not applicable
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation E01924
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [Burns, G.]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:3]

Event

Dataset / Survey name Burns, G.  
Occurrence date 1948-05-31
Verbatim event date 31MAY1948
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sterna (Sterna) paradisaea
Supplied scientific name "Sterna paradisaea"
Identified to rank species
Common name Arctic Tern
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Laridae
Genus Sterna
Species Sterna paradisaea
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Pontoppidan, 1763
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Supplied as "Scotland"
State or Territory Orkney Constituency
Locality HEAD OF LOCH?, MAINLAND, ORKNEY; ASSUMED TO BE LOCH HARRAY
Latitude 59.05
Supplied as: "59.05"
Longitude -3.25
Supplied as: "-3.25"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality HEAD OF LOCH?, MAINLAND, ORKNEY
Water body not applicable
Island Mainland
Island group Orkney Islands
Location remarks latitude and longitude approximate
Coordinate precision 0.01667
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Europe
Marine false
Country Code GB
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume AGD66 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty latitude and longitude approximate

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries United Kingdom

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 7.9 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 39.0 %