Bird habitat surveys conducted in the Windmill Islands during 2002/03 and descriptive information of the terrestrial Environment in the Windmill Islands

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL; PENGUINS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; BIRDS; ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES; ANTARCTICA; ASPECT; CAPE PETREL; BOULDER; COMMENTS; DAPTION CAPENSE; DATE; MAPPING; NEST; PAGODROMA NIVEA; OCEANITE OCEANICUS; PERMICE; PHOTO; SCREE; SEDIMENT; SITE; SLOPE; SNOW PETREL; SNOW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTRATE; WINDMILL ISLANDS; WILSON'S STORM PETREL; GPS > Global Positioning System; GPS RECEIVERS; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; CONTINENT > GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Windmill Islands; Nivea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Cape Petrel; Daption capense; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/bird-habitat-surveys-windmill-islands/685171; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/HABITATCASEY0203; https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/1190/download; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=1219; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=HABITATCASEY0203

Data were acquired with a Garmin 26 GPS receiver, the accuracy of which is better than an average handheld GPS model, such as the Garmin 12. In order not to overestimate the quality of the data, it is sensible to assume that nest locations were acquired with an uncertainty between 5 and 10 m. Very l...