HG_OOSTENDE - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium)

Details

HG_OOSTENDE - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding at the southern North Sea coast (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 HG_OOSTENDE, using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study has been operational since 2013. In total 60 individuals of European Herring gull (Larus argentatus) have been tagged in or near their breeding area at the southern North Sea coast (Ostend and Zeebrugge in Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use. Data are periodically uploaded from the UvA-BiTS database to Movebank and from there archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking). An older version of this dataset has been described in Stienen et al. (2016, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6173).

Date available	05/12/2019
Publisher	Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO)
Tijdelijke dekking periode	17/05/2013 - 31/12/2020
Geographical coverage	Europe & Africa

Teams

• Species Diversity
• Open science lab for biodiversity

INBO Research theme(s)

• Protected nature
• Data & infrastructure

Taxonomic List

• gulls and terns (Laridae and Sternidae)

Biomedical sciences (EWI categorisation)

• B005-zoology
• B280-animal-ecology