TURTUR_VLAANDEREN - European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur, Columbidae) breeding in Flanders (Belgium)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Oct 2, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study7675204759
Publication date:
October 2, 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

TURTUR_VLAANDEREN - European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur, Columbidae) breeding in Flanders (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 (https://lifewatch.be/birds) for the project/study TURTUR_VLAANDEREN, using trackers developed by Global Messenger (https://www.gm-tracking.com). The study has been operational since 2025. In total 13 individuals of European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) have been tagged at several locations in Flanders (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and foraging 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. Additional funding was provided by Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos (ANB).Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are subsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Spanoghe et al. (2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23097871), a deposit of Movebank study 7675204759.

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 7,402 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.

Occurrence (core)
7402
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
26

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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: 256134b5-93d9-4928-8a4f-aea0cb5b4182.  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

animal movement; animal tracking; gps tracking; altitude; temperature; biologging; birds; LifeWatch; Global Messenger; Movebank; frictionlessdata; Occurrence

Contacts

Geert Spanoghe
  • Originator
Kjell Janssens
  • Originator
Hilbran Verstraete
  • Originator
Tanja Milotic
  • Originator
Sanne Govaert
  • Originator
Peter Desmet
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