Metadata details
bunger_hills_birds
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- Citation
- Van Den Hoff, J. (2023) Birds observed in the Bunger Hills by Polish biologists during a summer expedition in 1989, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/yfd5-w025, Accessed: 2026-05-21
- Title
- Birds observed in the Bunger Hills by Polish biologists during a summer expedition in 1989
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/yfd5-w025
- Created Date
- 2023-08-31
- Revision Date
- 2023-09-04
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
Data derived from a report: "FILCEK, K. and ZIELINSKI, K. 1990. Report on the expedition of Polish biologists to Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, 1988/89. Polish Polar Research, 11, 161–167".
https://journals.pan.pl/publication/127412/edition/111168/polish-polar-research-1990-vol-11-no-1-2-report-on-the-expedition-of-polish-biologists-to-bunger-hills-east-antarctica-1988-89-filcek-krzysztof-zielinski-krzysztof.
On page 165 of the report, it states: “Nests of south polar skua are also very dispersed, however the birds gathered at the station or, after freezing of lakes on the patch of open water at the outflow of Bystra Stream from the Figurnoe Lake. Up to ten individuals were counted at that time.”
Figurnoe Lake in the Bunger Hills is officially called Algae Lake. Bystra is Polish for 'rapid stream' - refer to Place Name ID 16936.
The dataset contains one point for the sighting of the ten south polar skuas as described in the Polish report: 'Nests of south polar skua are also very dispersed, however the birds gathered at the station or, after freezing of lakes on the patch of open water at the outflow of Bystra Stream from the Figurnoe Lake. Up to ten individuals were counted at that time.'
The data have been compiled as a shapefile.
Purpose
To capture the existence of birds in the Bunger Hills as noted in the Polish report.
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1989-02-04 - Stop date: 1989-04-10
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES
Additional Keywords
- SKUAS
Locations
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > BUNGER HILLS
Platforms
- FIELD SURVEYS
Instruments
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Researchers
- van den hoff, john (INVESTIGATOR)
- lucas, suzelle (DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=bunger_hills_birds when using these data.
