MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium)
Citation
Stienen E W, Desmet P, Milotic T, Spanoghe G, Janssens K (2024). MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) breeding near Antwerp (Belgium). Version 1.1. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6599272
Contact:
Desmet, Peter Availability: To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.
Description
MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN - Mediterranean gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, Laridae) 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 MEDGULL_ANTWERPEN, using trackers developed by Ornitela (https://www.ornitela.com). The study has been operational since 2021. In total 4 individuals of Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) have been tagged in their breeding area near the city of Antwerp (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour. more
Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking).
Scope Themes: Biology > Birds Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Terrestrial, Animal behaviour, Breeding grounds, Breeding habitats, Tagging, Tracking, Belgium, Antwerp, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage Belgium, Antwerp [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -9,4743; MinLat: 36,8564 - MaxLong: 6,1056; MaxLat: 52,9974 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
From 2021 on [In Progress] Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), more, data creator
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2021-12-02
Information last updated: 2025-01-07
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