This dataset contains cleaned and processed occurrence records for the Gouldian Finch (*Chloebia gouldiae*) in Australia between 2014 and 2024. It includes spatial coordinates, temporal details, species information, and the ID of the nearest weather station for each observation.
Format
A tibble with 3,921 rows and 14 variables:
- obs_lat
Latitude of the observation (decimal degrees)
- obs_lon
Longitude of the observation (decimal degrees)
- date
Date of the observation (YYYY-MM-DD)
- time
Time of the observation (HH:MM:SS)
- year
Year of the observation
- month
Month (1–12)
- day
Day of the month
- hour
Hour extracted from the time (0–23)
- weekday
Day of the week (as ordered factor)
- dayofyear
Day of the year (1–366)
- sci_name
Scientific name of the species
- record_type
Type of observation (e.g., HUMAN_OBSERVATION)
- obs_state
Australian state where the observation was recorded
- ws_id
Nearest weather station ID (e.g., "948280-99999")
Details
The data was retrieved from the Atlas of Living Australia using the galah package, then standardized, cleaned, and matched to the three closest weather stations using geospatial tools.
Examples
data(gouldian_finch)
head(gouldian_finch)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 14
#> obs_lat obs_lon date time year month day hour weekday dayofyear
#> <dbl> <dbl> <date> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <int> <ord> <dbl>
#> 1 -38.3 142. 2015-01-25 15:15:00 2015 1 25 15 Sunday 25
#> 2 -35.5 139. 2021-01-03 15:01:16 2021 1 3 15 Sunday 3
#> 3 -35.4 149. 2016-12-13 10:30:00 2016 12 13 10 Tuesday 348
#> 4 -33.8 151. 2014-04-24 00:00:00 2014 4 24 0 Thursday 114
#> 5 -33.8 151. 2014-04-24 00:00:00 2014 4 24 0 Thursday 114
#> 6 -33.8 151. 2014-04-24 00:00:00 2014 4 24 0 Thursday 114
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: sci_name <chr>, record_type <chr>, obs_state <chr>,
#> # ws_id <chr>