Dataset
Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH)
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Threatened migratory shorebird habitat mapping

Originally digitised very poorly, this dataset has been fixed as much as posssible. Important feeding habitats and roosting sites for seven species of migratory shorebirds (waders) were plotted on GIS software using air photos as templates. Data for this process was obtained from a variety of sources to provide numbers of birds recorded at each of the sites. The habitat mapping was done from first hand experience in the field by the author and/or from local ornithologists with particular skills in shorebird identification and local knowledge of habitats used by shorebirds. The accuracy of the data plotted will not always match the topography, such as shoals, sand spits or shorelines because these are constantly changing (the air photos used are at least 10 years old).However this is the most precise shorebird mapping available.

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Field Value
Language English
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords Environment and Conservation
Metadata Date 1900-08-06
Date of Asset Creation 1900-08-06
Date of Asset Revision 2011-08-04
Date of Asset Publication 2010-07-23
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 0
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Curve
Object count
1
Geospatial Topic Environment
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2006-01-05
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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