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Occurrence record: Eggs:E17972

Preserved specimen of Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758 | Great Egret recorded on 1979-03-01
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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 E17972
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Eggs:E17972
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Egg(s)
Record number 59
Sex Not applicable
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation E17972
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [Ey, A.E.]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:22]

Event

Dataset / Survey name Ey, A.E.  
Occurrence date 1979-03-01
Verbatim event date 01.03.1979
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ardea alba
Identified to rank species
Common name Great Egret
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Ciconiiformes
Family Ardeidae
Genus Ardea
Species Ardea alba
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Linnaeus, 1758
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Sheep Station Creek mouth, ca.23km northwest of Ayr
Latitude -19.4333
Supplied as: "-19.4333"
Longitude 147.2667
Supplied as: "147.2667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Sheep Station Creek mouth, ca.23km northwest of Ayr
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS WGS84

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Bowling Green Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Bowling Green Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Bowling Green Bay
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    RAMSAR wetland regions Bowling Green Bay
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Brigalow Belt North
    IBRA 7 Regions Brigalow Belt North
    IBRA 7 Subregions Townsville Plains
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 HAUGHTON RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Local Government Areas 2011 Burdekin (S)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Burdekin
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 BURDEKIN SHIRE
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 17
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 975
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) BURDEKIN
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) CHARTERS TOWERS - AYR - INGHAM
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) DAWSON
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) BURDEKIN - AYR
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) BURDEKIN
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) TOWNSVILLE - MACKAY
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BURDEKIN
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Mangroves
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Mangroves
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Chenopod shrubs,samphire shrublands and forblands
    Vegetation types - present Chenopod shrublands, samphire shrubs and forblands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1059.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 59.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 49.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 92.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 609.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 65.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 635.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.4 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 24.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 20.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.04
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.8 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.854166 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.55
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99