DOI10.26197/ala.c647bb29-485f-4cfb-b54d-88cbdebd3c7b

Occurrence records download on 2025-12-16


Record count: 95,405
Search query:
  • query: taxa:"Whiskered Tern"
  • context: -_nest_parent_:*
Data profile: ALA General
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Exclude environmental DNA and fossil specimen records -basisOfRecord:"FOSSIL_SPECIMEN" AND -(basisOfRecord:"MATERIAL_SAMPLE" AND contentTypes:"Environmental DNA")
Exclude duplicate records -(duplicate_status:"ASSOCIATED" AND duplicateType:"DIFFERENT_DATASET")
Exclude records where the degreeOfEstablishment field is cultivated or captive -degreeOfEstablishment:"cultivated" AND -degreeOfEstablishment:"captive"
Exclude records with scientific name related quality assertions -assertions:TAXON_MATCH_NONE AND -assertions:INVALID_SCIENTIFIC_NAME AND -assertions:TAXON_HOMONYM AND -assertions:UNKNOWN_KINGDOM AND -assertions:TAXON_SCOPE_MISMATCH
Exclude absence records -occurrenceStatus:ABSENT
Exclude records known to be unverified -identificationVerificationStatus:"needs_id"
Exclude records with event date pre 1700 -year:[* TO 1700]
Exclude records with open user assertions -userAssertions:50001 AND -userAssertions:50005
Exclude records with location related data quality assertions -decimalLatitude:0 AND -decimalLongitude:0 AND -assertions:"PRESUMED_SWAPPED_COORDINATE" AND -assertions:"COORDINATES_CENTRE_OF_STATEPROVINCE" AND -assertions:"COORDINATES_CENTRE_OF_COUNTRY" AND -assertions:"PRESUMED_NEGATED_LATITUDE" AND -assertions:"PRESUMED_NEGATED_LONGITUDE"
Exclude records that are an outlier (not within the expected range) against 3 or more environmental layers according to a reverse jacknife test -outlierLayerCount:[3 TO *]
Exclude records with a spatially suspect flag. -spatiallyValid:"false"
Exclude records with high uncertainty -coordinateUncertaintyInMeters:[10001 TO *]
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Date Created: 2025-12-16 3:23 PM

Datasets (55)

Name Licence Record count
eBird Australia Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 56,886
BirdLife Australia, Birdata Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 3.0 (Int)) 10,549
Victorian Biodiversity Atlas Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) Copyright in the data and materials resides with the copyright owners as indicated next to the detailed records. In any reproduction, distribution or publication of the data, or in any use or adaptation of the data to create derivative works, the user must include a citation which attributes the source of the data and the date the data was published, as follows: Data Source: 'Victorian Biodiversity Atlas', © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published [month, year]). Data Source: 'Victorian Biodiversity Atlas', (c) The State of Victoria, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (published [month, year]). Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int) 4.0) 7,468
SA Fauna Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 5,938
NSW BioNet Atlas Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 3,587
First Bird Atlas CC-BY-NC 2,465
Fauna Atlas N.T. Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) Data supplied is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License. 2,190
Australian Waterbird Surveys (1983-2018) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 2,098
iNaturalist Australia 932
Historical Bird Atlas CC-BY-NC 865
WildNet - Queensland Wildlife Data Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) 592
TRIAP Franklin 2008 Waterbirds - Marine records, Northern Australia (1900-2002) CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 323
South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM CC-BY 218
Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM CC-BY Data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia license. Sound files associated with specimen records are not available for download and re-use. Please contact the Australian National Wildlife Collection for more information. 189
NT Alligator Rivers Region Aerial Survey Raw Bird Count, Northern Territory, Australia (1981 - 1984) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 177
NT Alligator Rivers Region Bird Ground Count, Northern Territory, Australia (1981-1983) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 148
Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM CC-BY 92
NT Alligator Rivers Region Billabongs Bird Count, Northern Territory, Australia (1981-1984) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 88
PAE Bird Monitoring Project Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 74
Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) Western Australian Museum, http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/ 72
Australian Museum provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) Australian Museum,https://australian.museum/ Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au) 3.0) 66
Murray-Darling Basin waterbird survey CC-BY-Int 47
Earth Guardians Weekly Feed Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)) 44
Observation.org, Nature data from around the World CC BY-NC 43
ALA species sightings and OzAtlas CC-BY 35
Eyre Peninsula's Bird Monitoring Program Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 34
Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM CC-BY 31
NatureMapr Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (Australia) 23
QLD DERM Coastal Bird Atlas (Trial) CC-BY-NC 19
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 11
Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 10
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL) - Aves Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 9
Encyclopedia of Life Images - Flickr Group Creative Commons - license at record level (Creative Commons - license at record level) 9
Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)) Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/ Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (International) (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int) 4.0) 8
Xeno-canto - Bird sounds from around the world CC BY-NC 7
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Ornithology Collection CC BY-NC 7
NHMO Bird collection CC BY 6
National Waterbirds Survey, Northern Territory, Australia (2008) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 5
NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US) Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 5
Discovery Circle BioBlitz events other 5
BowerBird Creative Commons - license at record level (Creative Commons - license at record level) The rights of material uploaded by users to the BowerBird website are owned by those users. Each user will nominate the type of license that can apply to their content - BowerBird encourages the Creative Commons License but users have the right to deny use of their content. Please respect the license wishes of the user's content. For all other material, including the content, design and source code of BowerBird other than user-contributed material, is under the Open Source and Creative Commons licenses. You may use this material. 4
Gaia Guide Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 3.0 (Int)) 4
NatureShare CC-BY Images are CC-BY 2.5, Data is CC-BY-NC 3.0. 4
North West Shelf Joint Environmental Management Study - historic data (1895-1994) CC-BY-NC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. 3
WFVZ Bird Collections Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 2
Western Australia Bird Surveys (1987-2015) CC-BY CC-BY 2
Rottnest Island lakes, swamps and coastal bird counts December 1981 to September 2007 CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. 2
Birds of Rottnest Island, Western Australia, 1981 - 2007 CC-BY 2
UMZC Zoological Specimens CC BY 1
UWBM Ornithology Collection Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/ 1
Brisbane City Council Creative Commons Attribution (Australia) (CC-BY 3.0 (Au)) 1
Logan City Council Species Sightings Creative Commons Attribution (International) (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)) Logan City Council, Queensland 1
Auckland Museum Land Vertebrates Collection CC BY 1
RBINS DaRWIN CC BY-NC 1