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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 |
DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 63.15M |
| Volumes | 318,032 |
| Titles | 197,463 |
| 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 |