Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Western Marsh Harriers breeding near the Belgium-Netherlands border
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on May 16, 2017
Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Western Marsh Harriers breeding near the Belgium-Netherlands border is a species occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). The dataset contains over 290.000 occurrences (GPS fixes) recorded between 2013 and 2017 by GPS trackers mounted on 6 Western Marsh Harriers breeding near the Belgium-Netherlands border. The trackers are developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl) and allow to study the harriers' habitat use and migration behaviour in great detail. Our bird tracking network is operational since 2013 and is maintained and used by the INBO, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), UvA-BiTS, Ghent University (UGent), and the University of Antwerp (UA). See the dataset metadata for contact information, scope, and methodology. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/bird-tracking-wmh-occurrences
The following information is not included in the dataset and available upon request: outliers, speed, temperature, barometric pressure, GPS metadata (fix time, number of satellites used, vertical accuracy), and bird weight measured during tagging.
To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/rbguhj) whenever possible. If you use these data for a scientific paper, please cite the dataset following the applicable citation norms and/or consider us for co-authorship. We are always interested to know how you have used or visualized the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata, opendata@inbo.be or https://twitter.com/LifeWatchINBO.
The bird tracking network used to collect these data is set up and maintained by the INBO and VLIZ as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 293,608 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 293,608 records in English (10 MB) - Update frequency: as needed |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (18 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (12 KB) |
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Anselin A, Desmet P, Janssens K, T'Jollyn F, De Bruyn L, Hernandez F, Bouten W, Lens L (2017): Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Western Marsh Harriers breeding near the Belgium-Netherlands border. v1.1. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/rbguhj
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). 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.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2fc1d8b5-9c99-4e03-8c3c-11a6e51a298f. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; animal movement; bird tracking; GPS tracking; habitat use; migration; Western Marsh Harrier; Circus aeruginosus; bruine kiekendief; UvA-BiTS; LifeWatch; MachineObservation
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Geographic Coverage
The tracked birds were tagged in their breeding range near the Belgium-Netherlands border. It is a polder area dominated by creeks, located in the provinces of East-Flanders (Belgium) and Zeeland (the Netherlands) bordered by the Western Scheldt in the north and the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal in the east. During breeding season, the foraging range of the harriers is generally restricted to less than 10 km from the nest. Starting in September the birds migrate south, hibernating in Sub-Saharan areas of West Africa. Spring arrivals start in March.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [10, -20], North East [55, 15] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset contains tracking data from 6 Western Marsh Harriers (Circus aeruginosus) breeding near the Belgium-Netherlands border.
| Kingdom | Animalia (animals) |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves (birds) |
| Order | Falconiformes |
| Family | Accipitridae |
| Genus | Circus (harriers) |
| Species | Circus aeruginosus (Western Marsh Harrier) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2013-05-16 / 2017-04-30 |
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| Formation Period | breeding season 2013 |
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| Formation Period | migration/wintering season 2013-2014 |
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| Formation Period | breeding season 2014 |
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| Formation Period | migration/wintering season 2014-2015 |
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| Formation Period | breeding season 2015 |
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| Formation Period | migration/wintering season 2015-2016 |
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| Formation Period | breeding season 2016 |
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| Formation Period | migration/wintering season 2016-2017 |
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Bibliographic Citations
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-012-0908-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-012-0908-1
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 2fc1d8b5-9c99-4e03-8c3c-11a6e51a298f |
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| http://data.inbo.be/ipt/resource?r=bird-tracking-wmh-occurrences |