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Occurrence record: Bird:T5709

Preserved specimen of Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818) | Whistling Kite recorded on 2008-05-22
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Bird Collection
Supplied collection code "Bird"
Catalog number T5709
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Bird:T5709
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations skeleton
Identified by D. Stanioch  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2008

Event

Occurrence date 2008-05-22
Supplied as year:2008  month:5  day:22 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Haliastur sphenurus
Identified to rank species
Common name Whistling Kite
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Accipitriformes
Supplied as "Falconiformes"
Family Accipitridae
Genus Haliastur
Species Haliastur sphenurus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Vieillot, 1818)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Palmerston, Outer Darwin
Latitude -12.483
Supplied as: "-12.483"
Longitude 130.983
Supplied as: "130.983"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Darwin Coastal
    IBRA 7 Regions Darwin Coastal
    IBRA 7 Subregions Darwin Coastal
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tanami-Timor Sea Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 FINNISS RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Local Government Areas 2011 Palmerston (C)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Driver
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 PALMERSTON MUNICIPALITY
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 255
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 3809
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) GREATER DARWIN
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) DRIVER
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) PALMERSTON
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) DARWIN
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) SOLOMON
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) PALMERSTON
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) DRIVER
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) DARWIN
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) DRYSDALE
    PSMA States (2016) NORTHERN TERRITORY
    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 Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Tropical eucalypt woodlands/grasslands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1735.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 110.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 460.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 111.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1162.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.1 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 8.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 24.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.8 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.6 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.56
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 34.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.2 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.2 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 27.325 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 61.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 24.0 m