Researchers from Project D1 of the Marine Biodiversity Hub of the National Environmental Science Programme present this interactive map-based summary of where seabirds are known to exist in the Key Ecological Features of the N and NW regions.
Data were obtained from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). We took reasonable steps to identify and remove duplicate records when combining these datasets. As our aim in collating this data was to identify locations where sea birds had ever been observed, we retained all data regardless of age. The data contains records of where sea birds are known to exist, but none where they are known to be absent.