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Occurrence record: Birds:B30050

Preserved specimen of Egretta novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) | White-faced Heron recorded on 1973-04-13
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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 B30050
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B30050
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skin
Record number T51
Sex male
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B30050
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 1973-04-13
Verbatim event date 13APR1973
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Egretta novaehollandiae
Identified to rank species
Common name White-faced Heron
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Ciconiiformes
Family Ardeidae
Genus Egretta
Species Egretta novaehollandiae
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Latham, 1790)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Timor-Leste
State or Territory Baucau
Locality 15 KM S OF BAUKAU, EAST TIMOR
Habitat
Supplied as "OPEN RICE FIELDS"
Latitude -8.5667
Supplied as: "-8.5667"
Longitude 126.3833
Supplied as: "126.3833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality 15 KM S OF BAUKAU, EAST TIMOR
Water body not applicable
Island Timor
Island group Lesser Sunda Islands
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Elevation 1800FT
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Asia
Marine false
Country Code TL
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries East Timor

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.4875 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 67.0 %