MH_ANTWERPEN - Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus, Accipitridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium)

MH_ANTWERPEN - Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus, Accipitridae) 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 MH_ANTWERPEN, using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study has been operational since 2018. In total 3 individuals of western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus) and 1 common buzzard (Buteo buteo) have been tagged in their breeding area near the city of Antwerp (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour. Data are periodically uploaded from the UvA-BiTS database to Movebank and from there archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking).

See Milotic et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.947.52570) for a more detailed description of this dataset.

Data in this package are exported from Movebank study MH_ANTWERPEN - Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus, Accipitridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium) (Movebank Study ID 938783961), which can be viewed at https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study938783961. Fields in the data follow the Movebank Attribute Dictionary (http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB) and are described in datapackage.json.

Files

Files are structured as a Frictionless Data Package. You can access all data in R via https://zenodo.org/record/8238402/files/datapackage.json using frictionless.

• datapackage.json: technical description of the data files.
• MH_ANTWERPEN-reference-data.csv: reference data about the animals, tags and deployments.
• MH_ANTWERPEN-gps-yyyy.csv.gz: GPS data recorded by the tags, grouped by year.
• MH_ANTWERPEN-acceleration-yyyy.csv.gz: acceleration data recorded by the tags, grouped by year.