Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast

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Stienen EWM, Desmet P, Aelterman B, Courtens W, Feys S, Vanermen N, Verstraete H, Van de walle M, Deneudt K, Hernandez F, Houthoofdt R, Vanhoorne B, Bouten W, Buijs RJ, Kavelaars MM, Müller W, Herman D, Matheve H, Sotillo A, Lens L (2014): Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. http://doi.org/10.15468/02omly Data paper: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6173

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Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède lUUID GBIF suivante : 83e20573-f7dd-4852-9159-21566e1e691e.  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec lapprobation du Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Mots-clé

Occurrence; Observation; animal movement; bird tracking; GPS tracking; habitat use; migration; Lesser Black-backed Gull; Larus fuscus; Herring Gull; Larus argentatus; UvA-BiTS; LifeWatch; MachineObservation;

Contacts

Couverture géographique

The tracked birds breed at the southern North Sea coast in three colonies, located in the ports of Zeebrugge (Belgium), Ostend (Belgium) and Vlissingen-Oost (the Netherlands). During the breeding season, their foraging range includes the west of Belgium and the Netherlands, northern France, the North Sea, and the English Channel. The Lesser Black-backed Gulls migrate south in winter, mainly hibernating in the south of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa.

Couverture taxonomique

The dataset contains tracking data from 108 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls (Larus fuscus) and 37 Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) breeding at the southern North Sea coast.

Couverture temporelle

Méthodes déchantillonnage

The birds are tracked with the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The system is described in detail in Bouten et al. 2013. The lightweight, solar powered GPS trackers periodically record the 3D position and air temperature, and can be configured to collect body movements with the built-in tri-axial accelerometer as well. The system allows to remotely set or change the measurement interval per tracker: the actual interval between measurements is provided in samplingEffort as seconds_since_last_occurrence. The data are stored on the tracker, until these can be transmitted automatically and wireless to a base station using the built-in ZigBee transceiver with whip antenna. This receiver is also used to receive new measurement settings. The spatial range for this communication is restricted to the location of the base station (or antenna network), which is placed near the colony. Data cannot be retrieved from birds that do not return to the colony with the base station. For 4 of the 149 birds fitted with trackers no data were obtained (all LBBG) and their organismIDs (L909202, L907253, L909374, L907411) will thus not be found in the dataset. At the time of publication 92% of the individuals were tracked for more than 10 days and 46% for more than 100 days. The longest tracking period is 1202 days (a HG with organismID H903185). Data received by the base stations are automatically harvested, post-processed, and stored in a central PostgreSQL database at UvA-BiTS (http://www.uva-bits.nl/virtual-lab), which is accessible to the involved researchers only. The tracking data are exported, cleaned, and enriched for further use (https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking-etl) on a monthly basis. To create this published version of the dataset, we standardize the data to Darwin Core using an R script (https://github.com/inbo/data-publication/blob/6f594a/datasets/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences/mapping/dwc-occurrence.Rmd), document and (re)publish the dataset on our IPT (http://dataset.inbo.be/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences), and have it harvested by the Global Biodiversity Information System (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/83e20573-f7dd-4852-9159-21566e1e691e). Issues or remarks regarding the data or this procedure can be reported at https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences To extract data from one individual, one can use organismID, which contains the unique metal leg ring code of each bird. Tracker IDs are provided in dynamicProperties as device_info_serial. This field also contains the catch location of the bird (catch_location) and the tracking start date (tracking_started_at).

Description des étapes de la méthode:

1. Researcher captures bird, takes biometrics, attaches GPS tracker, and releases bird.
2. Researcher sets a measurement scheme, which can be updated anytime.
3. GPS tracker records data.
4. GPS tracker automatically receives new measurement settings and transmits recorded data when a connection can be established with the base station at the colony.
5. Recorded data are automatically harvested, post-processed, and stored in a central PostgreSQL database at UvA-BiTS.
6. Tracking data specific to LifeWatch Flanders are exported, cleaned, and enhanced monthly with a bird tracking ETL.
7. LifeWatch INBO team periodically (re)publishes data as a Darwin Core Archive, registered with GBIF.
8. Data stream stops when bird no longer returns to colony or if GPS tracker no longer functions (typical tracker lifespan: 2-3 years).

Citations bibliographiques

1. Stienen EWM, Desmet P, Aelterman B, Courtens W, Feys S, Vanermen N, Verstraete H, Van de walle M, Deneudt K, Hernandez F, Houthoofdt R, Vanhoorne B, Bouten W, Buijs RJ, Kavelaars MM, Müller W, Herman D, Matheve H, Sotillo A, Lens L (2016) GPS tracking data of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast. ZooKeys 555: 115–124. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.555.6173 http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6173
2. Bouten W, Baaij EW, Shamoun-Baranes J, Camphuysen KCJ (2013) A flexible GPS tracking system for studying bird behaviour at multiple scales. Journal of Ornithology 154(2): 571-580. doi: 10.1007/s10336-012-0908-1 http://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-012-0908-1
3. Stienen EWM, Courtens W, Van de walle M, Vanermen N, Verstraete H (2015) Monitoring van kustbroedvogels in de SBZ-V ‘Kustbroedvogels te Zeebrugge-Heist’ en de westelijke voorhaven van Zeebrugge tijdens het broedseizoen 2014. INBO.R.2015.7299133 Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussels (in Dutch) https://www.inbo.be/nl/publicatie/monitoring-van-kustbroedvogels-de-sbz-v-kustbroedvogels-te-zeebrugge-heist
4. Strucker RCW, Hoekstein MSJ, Wolf PA (2013) Kustbroedvogels in het Deltagebied in 2012. RWS Centrale Informatievoorziening BM 13.18 (in Dutch)
5. Strucker RCW., Arts FA, Hoekstein MSJ (2015) Kustbroedvogels in het Deltagebied in 2014. RWS Centrale Informatievoorziening BM 15.07 (in Dutch)
6. Wetlands International (2015) “Waterbird Population Estimates”. Retrieved from http://wpe.wetlands.org on 2015-12-01

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