Details
Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast is a species occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) and described in Stienen et al. 2016 (http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6173) The dataset contains close to 2.5 million occurrences, recorded by 101 GPS trackers mounted on 75 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 26 Herring Gulls breeding at the Belgian and Dutch coast (see https://inbo.cartodb.com/u/lifewatch/viz/da04f120-ea70-11e4-a3f2-0e853d047bba/public_map for a visualization of the data). The trackers were developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). These automatically record and transmit bird movements, which allows us and others to study their habitat use and migration behaviour in great detail. Our bird tracking network is operational since 2013. It is funded for LifeWatch by the Hercules Foundation and maintained in collaboration with UvA-BiTS and the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). The recorded data are periodically released in bulk as open data (http://dataset.inbo.be/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences), and are also accessible through CartoDB and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, http://doi.org/10.15468/02omly). See the dataset metadata for contact information, scope and methodology. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences
| Date available |
18/06/2014 |
| Publisher |
Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek |
Teams
INBO Research theme(s)
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Protected nature
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Data & infrastructure
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Water
Taxonomic List
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gulls and terns (Laridae and Sternidae)
Biomedical sciences (EWI categorisation)
