Description
HG_JUVENILE - Juvenile herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) hatched at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds at Ghent University and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data for the project/study HG_JUVENILE, using trackers developed by Interrex (http://www.interrex-tracking.com). The study has been operational since 2022. In total 204 individuals of European herring gull (Larus argentatus) have been tagged. 150 individuals were raised from egg by Ghent University researchers at the Wildlife Rescue Center in Ostend, completed several cognitive and behavioural tests when approximately three weeks old, and were released in the IJzermonding, Nieuwpoort (Belgium). 54 additional individuals were tagged and released in the wild to collect baseline data. The main goal of the study is to link cognitive performance in the lab to behaviour in the wild. 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 the ERC and Ghent University.
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 Allaert et al. (2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16960867), a deposit of Movebank study 2217728245.
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 609,395 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ghent University. 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: 0b499d5e-c359-4cce-b817-d6f588988441. Ghent University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
animal movement; animal tracking; gps tracking; altitude; temperature; biologging; birds; Interrex; Movebank; frictionlessdata; Occurrence
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