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Occurrence record: Birds:B19795

Preserved specimen of Sterna (Sterna) paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 | Arctic Tern recorded on 1977-12-20
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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 "Birds"
Catalog number B19795
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B19795
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skeleton; skin
Record number S1053
Sex female
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B19795
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1977-12-20
Verbatim event date 20DEC1977
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 Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Locality E of eden
Latitude -37.0667
Supplied as: "-37.0667"
Longitude 150.0
Supplied as: "150"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality E OF EDEN
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Southern Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 South East NSW
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East NSW
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Twofold Shelf
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)