Land-based observations of cetaceans in the waters of Beringa Island in 2007-2009

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: Russian Cetacean Habitat Project Dataset credits: Russian Cetacean Habitat Project Far East Russia Orca Project Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society Abstract: These data were collected via land-based observations from Poludennaya Bay, Beringa Island (Commander Islands) in May-June 2007, May-July 2008 and August-September 2009. The observation point was located on a 40 m cliff. Bearing and distance to the observed whales were defined by binoculars with a compass and range-finding reticle. Observations were conducted during all daylight hours, if visibility was more than 5 km. We made one 15 minute scan every half hour and noted all cetaceans observed during the scan. Consequently, in many cases we could note the same animal several times in different scans. Observed species include killer whale, minke whale, humpback whale, fin whale, sei whale, sperm whale, Baird’s beaked whale, harbor porpoise and Dall’s porpoise.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Filatova, O. 2010. Land-based observations of cetaceans in the waters of Beringa Island in 2007-2009. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/177736be.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fb52bfa2-817a-49cd-9ef5-426ac06dc9e4.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; land-based observations; critical habitat; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/598 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/598/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/598/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Olga Filatova
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Far East Russia Orca Project
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Beringa Island,Commander Islands,Kamchatka

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.818, 165.899], North East [55.11, 166.213]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Berardius bairdii (Baird's beaked whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2007-05-19 / 2009-09-13

Project Data

No Description available

Title Land-based observations of cetaceans in the waters of Beringa Island in 2007-2009
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Olga Filatova
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_598
Collection Identifier zd_598
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Filatova, O.A. and I.D. Fedutin. 2007. Results of land-based observations of cetaceans of the western shore of Beringa Island, Commander Reserve. 351-354.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. The original did not include the second part of the time.

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/177736be
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/598
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fb52bfa2-817a-49cd-9ef5-426ac06dc9e4
https://obis.org/dataset/b2a85900-c527-4904-bdc9-5dbb0bb26c1f
fb52bfa2-817a-49cd-9ef5-426ac06dc9e4
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_598