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Occurrence record: Eggs:E21654

Preserved specimen of Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin, 1789) | Nankeen Night-heron recorded on 1976-02-20
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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 "Eggs"
Catalog number E21654
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Eggs:E21654
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Egg(s)
Record number 24
Sex Not applicable
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation E21654
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Dataset / Survey name [Ey, A.E.]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:22]

Event

Dataset / Survey name Ey, A.E.  
Occurrence date 1976-02-20
Verbatim event date 20.02.1976
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Nycticorax caledonicus
Identified to rank species
Common name Nankeen Night-heron
Supplied common name "Nankeen Night Heron"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Ciconiiformes
Family Ardeidae
Genus Nycticorax
Species Nycticorax caledonicus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gmelin, 1789)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality mouth of Barratta Creek, ca.25km northwest of Ayr
Latitude -19.4372
Supplied as: "-19.4372"
Longitude 147.2547
Supplied as: "147.2547"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality mouth of Barratta Creek, ca.25km northwest of Ayr
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.000278
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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    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 4bde1e25-e55b-4620-893b-15534da1b229
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Nycticorax caledonicus
    Coordinates -19.4372,147.2547
    Related records
    Record UUID a34c8814-b3d5-4ebc-b1d5-324122f1b216
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Nycticorax caledonicus
    Coordinates -19.4372,147.2547
    Record UUID 9300c681-7424-400b-96d3-8c4f839b339d
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Nycticorax caledonicus
    Coordinates -19.4372,147.2547
    Record UUID e3cffe35-10ab-4b92-991f-14f03a483527
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Nycticorax caledonicus
    Coordinates -19.4372,147.2547

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Bowling Green Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Bowling Green Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Burdekin - Townsville Coastal Aggregation
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    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, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Other native forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Mangrove
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Mangroves
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Mangroves,tidal mudflats,samphires and bare areas,claypan,sand,rock,salt lakes,lagoons,lakes
    Vegetation types - present Mangroves

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1057.4445 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 63.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 48.555557 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 92.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 609.3333 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 65.333336 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 634.3333 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.38889 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 24.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.944445 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.0222225 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 20.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.933333 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.98889 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.49888888 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0444444
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.966667 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 23.825 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 54.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.55
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99