https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15685037 https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study1609400843 ebce3c1f-4307-4539-afb2-3876ec9ae737 https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=medgull_antwerpen Eric W.M. Stienen 0000-0002-4315-0936 Peter Desmet 0000-0002-8442-8025 Sanne Govaert 0000-0002-8939-1305 Tanja Milotic 0000-0002-3129-6196 Geert Spanoghe Kjell Janssens Peter Desmet peter.desmet@inbo.be 0000-0002-8442-8025 2026-01-26 en MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data collected by the LifeWatch GPS tracking network for large birds (http://lifewatch.be/en/gps-tracking-network-large-birds) for the project/study MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN, using trackers developed by Ornitela (https://www.ornitela.com). The study has been operational since 2021. In total 14 individuals of Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) have been tagged in their breeding area near the city of Antwerp (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour. Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking).This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15685037), a deposit of Movebank study 1609400843. animal movement animal tracking gps tracking altitude temperature biologging birds LifeWatch Ornitela Movebank frictionlessdata n/a Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study1609400843 N/A kingdom Animalia unknown Peter Desmet peter.desmet@inbo.be 0000-0002-8442-8025 2026-01-26T15:59:20.307+01:00 dataset Stienen E W, Desmet P, Govaert S, Milotic T, Spanoghe G, Janssens K (2026). MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium). Version 1.3. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=medgull_antwerpen&v=1.3 ebce3c1f-4307-4539-afb2-3876ec9ae737/v1.3.xml