Tracking of Short-tailed shearwaters

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

This record presents data collected from tagged and recaptured Short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris), with data presented throughout the Southern Ocean. The study was initially conducted on Wedge Island (43 km2), southern Tasmania (43o 07' S, 147o 40' E). Fifty geolocation archival (GLS) tag deployments were made on 34 adult birds in the pre-laying exodus (n = 18), incubation (n = 12) and early chick-rearing (ECR) phases (n = 20). In 2012, 12 birds were tracked during the pre-laying exodus. GLS tags were deployed between the 10th and the 18th of October. Ten birds were tracked from Wedge Island (as in 2010) and 2 were tracked from Whalebone Point, Bruny Island (43.44 South, 147.23 East; birds 22 and 80).

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Title Tracking of Short-tailed shearwaters
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e48c27df-50eb-43bf-97b4-d55e505887b6
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Clive.McMahon@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 13/10/2020
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Tracking of Short-tailed shearwaters". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tracking-of-short-tailed-shearwaters