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Historical Bird Atlas

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Citation

BirdLife Australia (2022). Historical Bird Atlas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pljute accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.

Description

The historical atlas is a collection of data from museum collections, personal notebooks, published and unpublished literature collected by Birds Australia. Records range from 1629 to 1976. Each survey was ascribed to a grid with the coordinates given as the central point. Grids size varied, with most being 10-minute grids or 1-degree grids.

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Contacts

originator
BirdLife Australia
metadata author
BirdLife Australia
distributor
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Ecosystems Services
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
email: info@ala.org.au
administrative point of contact
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Ecosystems Services
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
email: info@ala.org.au
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