Aerial Survey of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 13/11/2025

Aerial survey of waterbirds and wetlands in eastern Australia. All waterbird species in ten 30 km wide survey bands are counted, on waterbodies >1ha in size; ; Project was initiated by CSIRO and NSW NPWS and jointly funded by State wildlife agencies of Vic, Qld, SA and NSW. From 2005 project management was transferred to the University of New South Wales.

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Title Aerial Survey of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4b87496f-2bf4-4eba-987f-8432ab0025a1
Remote Last Updated 23/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 10/01/1983 - 31/10/2009
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Aerial Survey of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-aerial-survey-of-waterbirds-in-eastern-australia7031e