Australian Waterbird Surveys (1983-2018)

The Australian Aerial Waterbird Surveys (AWS) database stores temporal and spatial waterbird data on individual species, their breeding status and estimates of wetland area, collected during annual aerial surveys, extending back to 1983. The core methodology for these surveys has remained the same. The database includes three principal survey programs: The Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey, the National Waterbird Survey and surveys of the major wetland sites in the Murray-Darling Basin. Since 1983, the Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey has covered about a third of the continent each October, representing one of the larger and longer running biodiversity surveys in Australia, sampling wetland and waterbird communities across 2.7 million km2 of eastern Australia. In 2008, we did aerial surveys over most large wetlands across Australia during a period of two months. Since 2010, we have comprehensively surveyed all the major wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin. This dateset is subset of species that have been identified as marine in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). The data can be downloaded at https://aws.ecosystem.unsw.edu.au/澳大利亚水鸟航空调查（Australian Aerial Waterbird Surveys, AWS）数据库存储了单个物种的水鸟时空数据、物种繁殖状态以及湿地面积估算值，相关数据采集自1983年起开展的年度航空调查，其核心调查方法始终未变。该数据库包含三项核心调查项目：澳大利亚东部水鸟调查、全国水鸟调查，以及墨累-达令流域主要湿地站点调查。自1983年起，澳大利亚东部水鸟调查于每年10月覆盖澳洲大陆约三分之一的区域，是澳大利亚规模较大、持续周期最长的生物多样性调查项目之一，在澳大利亚东部270万平方公里的范围内对湿地与水鸟群落进行采样监测。2008年，项目组在两个月内完成了澳大利亚境内绝大多数大型湿地的航空调查。2010年起，项目组对墨累-达令流域的全部主要湿地开展了全面调查。本数据集为经世界海洋物种登记册（World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS）鉴定为海洋物种的物种子集。相关数据可通过https://aws.ecosystem.unsw.edu.au/ 下载获取。