Counts of breeding seabirds and herons at Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island off the Kimberley coast, Australia (1949-2014)

Ashmore Reef is situated on the edge of Sahul Shelf, off the Kimberley coast, Australia. Surveys in 2010 indicate the three small islands within Ashmore Reef support approximately 100,000 breeding seabirds of 16 species and four heron species on an annual basis. That such a diversity and abundance of tropical seabirds utilize a total land area of just 55 ha for breeding purposes is exceptional in an international context
Cartier Island and the surrounding reef is an isolated Australian Territory situated in the Timor Sea. This dataset summarises all known ornithological
records from the Island and detail the results of twice-annual bird surveys conducted within the Cartier Island Australian Marine Park between 2010 and 2014.
See cited papers for data and additional observations.

阿什莫尔礁（Ashmore Reef）坐落于澳大利亚金伯利海岸外的萨胡尔陆架（Sahul Shelf）边缘。2010年的调查结果显示，阿什莫尔礁内的三座小型岛屿每年可承载约10万只繁殖期海鸟，涵盖16种海鸟与4种鹭类。如此多样且数量庞大的热带海鸟仅依托总计55公顷的陆地面积开展繁殖活动，在全球范围内都堪称罕见。
帝汶海（Timor Sea）中的孤立澳大利亚领地包含卡蒂尔岛（Cartier Island）及其周边礁盘。本数据集汇总了该岛目前已公开的全部鸟类学记录，并详述了2010年至2014年间在卡蒂尔岛澳大利亚海洋公园内开展的每半年一次的鸟类调查结果。相关数据与额外观测记录请参见所引用的文献。