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.

Files

Data in this package are exported from Movebank study 938783961. Fields in the data follow the Movebank Attribute Dictionary and are described in datapackage.json. Files are structured as a Frictionless Data Package. You can access all data in R via https://zenodo.org/records/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.

Acknowledgements

This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.