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Occurrence records
records in total.
11,069
Data sets
Institutions | 1,001 |
Collections | 205 |
Data Resources | 1,567 |
• Data Available | 1,402 |
• Description only | 165 |
Species List sets | 9,409 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 121.39M |
Preserved specimen | 17.07M |
Machine observation | 3.84M |
Occurrence | 3.35M |
Material Sample | 2.72M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 20 May 2025 |
Last image added | 17 May 2025 |
1600s | |
1700s | |
1800s | |
1900s | |
2000s |
National Species Lists
Accepted names | 195,424 |
Synonyms | 146,974 |
Species names | 152,080 |
Species with records | 111,566 |
193
Spatial layers
Contextual layers | 126 |
Environmental/grided layers | 67 |
Terrestrial layers | 176 |
Marine layers | 10 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 2.23M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.66M |
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.42M |
Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.33M |
Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.23M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.22M |
16.73M |
Specimen labels transcribed | 1.18M |
Fieldnotes pages transcribed | 219,312 |
Volunteers | 12,071 |
Expeditions active | 353 |
Expeditions completed | 656 |
Total expeditions | 6,419 |
Conservation status
Status | # species |
---|---|
Endangered | 2,450 |
Near Threatened | 589 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 167 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.25M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.27M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.28M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.72M |
South Australia, Department for... | 4.12M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Global Biodiversity Information... | 3.00M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 470,632 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature mapr | 328,312 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Bio collect | 246,626 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Fungimap | 148,560 |
Feral scan | 135,670 |
Australian Seedbank Partnership | 121,971 |
European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 97,702 |
Climate watch | 93,603 |
Digi vol | 92,571 |
Flickr | 61,027 |
University of Adelaide | 56,490 |
CSIRO National Fish Collection | 55,336 |
Barcode of Life | 35,694 |
Wolli Creek Preservation Society | 33,415 |
Reef watch - Great Victorian... | 16,493 |
Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
Not supplied | 82.08M |
Records by institution
Australian Museum | 1.56M |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.09M |
Centre for Australian National... | 1.06M |
Museums Victoria | 1.04M |
Queensland Museum | 905,237 |
Western Australia, Department... | 868,015 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 808,544 |
Department for Environment and... | 759,294 |
Queensland Department of... | 730,562 |
Western Australian Museum | 660,052 |
South Australian Museum | 573,941 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 529,891 |
Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 470,917 |
Commonwealth Scientific and... | 452,154 |
NSW Department of Primary... | 359,312 |
Auckland War Memorial Museum | 318,743 |
Department of Environment and... | 289,493 |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... | 254,696 |
Museum and Art Gallery of the... | 250,375 |
Australian Tropical Herbarium | 196,219 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 126,365 |
University of New England | 100,253 |
Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
Massey University | 41,064 |
The University of Melbourne | 37,589 |
Scion | 34,016 |
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 29,740 |
Australian National Botanic Gardens | 29,245 |
University of New South Wales | 26,812 |
Not supplied | 136.78M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 115.48M | Monocots | 8.25M |
Birds | 87.16M | Insects | 7.72M |
Plants | 29.16M | Fishes | 5.93M |
Flowering plants | 26.89M | Mammals | 5.01M |
Dicots | 18.64M | Fungi | 2.78M |
Arthropods | 10.28M | Reptiles | 1.95M |
Monocots | 8.25M | Molluscs | 1.72M |
Records and species by decade

Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.60M events | 115.98B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Scientific research | 596,798 events | 22.31B records |
Ecological research | 444,983 events | 7.40B records |
Education | 56,179 events | 5.56B records |
Collection management | 35,246 events | 801.75M records |
Environmental assessment | 34,112 events | 3.76B records |
Citizen science | 22,345 events | 2.05B records |
Conservation management/planning | 13,554 events | 2.70B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 11,779 events | 932.48M records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 9,115 events | 300.09M records |
Species modelling | 8,806 events | 1.67B records |
Restoration/remediation | 2,320 events | 160.39M records |
Other | 72,743 events | 5.30B records |
TOTAL | 2.42M events | 56.19B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 148,971 events | 10.46B records |
Government | 37,825 events | 4.02B records |
Other | 470,048 events | 28.88B records |
Unspecified | 91,673 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
78,044
Taxa with images | 100,641 |
Species with images | 78,044 |
Subspecies with images | 4,458 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 36,132 |
Total number of images | 23,170,376 |