Bridging hosts : domestic horse density and Hendra virus spillover risk in a changing landscape [Dataset]

These data were collected from road line transects completed on public roads of North East New South Wales and South East Queensland, Australia. The field surveys were completed in September – October 2023 by a field team of one driver and one observer. When horses were identified along a transect, the vehicle was stopped to count the number of horses per paddock and measure their distance from the road using a Bushnell Trophy Xtreme laser rangefinder. These data were recorded in Sightings (v1.1; MacDonald 2013) and later updated to reflect the horse paddocks' GPS location in ArcGIS Pro.