What is Eric up to?
The INBO started visualizing data from a GPS tagged Lesser Black-backed Gull, named Eric.
As part of the Flemish LifeWatch terrestrial observatory, the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) is tracking large birds with lightweight, solar powered GPS tags. The project is lead by INBO researchers Eric Stienen (for gulls) and Anny Anselin (for the western marsh harrier) in collaboration with the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the Bird Tracking System of the University of Amsterdam (UvA-BiTS).
30 birds have been tagged over the course of the spring and summer of 2013. Most birds have started their annual migration south however, where the antennas that are used to download the data cannot pick them up. A good time to visualize some of the data.
On their blog, the INBO explains how they visualized two months of tracking data (June-July 2013) from Eric, a male Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding in the colony of Zeebrugge. For this they used the open source tool CartoDB.
30 birds have been tagged over the course of the spring and summer of 2013. Most birds have started their annual migration south however, where the antennas that are used to download the data cannot pick them up. A good time to visualize some of the data.
On their blog, the INBO explains how they visualized two months of tracking data (June-July 2013) from Eric, a male Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding in the colony of Zeebrugge. For this they used the open source tool CartoDB.
