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The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) participates in the installation, maintenance and data flows of the sensor network.\r\n\r\nAll equipment is developed by the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam: the Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS).","EngDescr":null,"OrigAbstract":null,"OrigDescr":null,"Comments":null,"ReleaseDate":null,"ReleaseDate0":null,"OrigDescrLang":null,"EmbargoDate":null,"OrigDescrLangNL":null,"OrigLangCode":null,"OrigLangCodeExtended":null,"OrigLangID":null,"DescrCompFlag":0,"DescrTransFlag":0,"Citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Terrestrische Ecologie Ugent (TEREC), Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), Instituut voor Natuur-en Bosonderzoek (INBO), Belgium (2015): LifeWatch observatory data: bird GPS tracking","AccessConstraints":null,"UDate":"2020-01-23","CDate":"2016-03-29","CurrencyDate":null,"RevisionDate":null,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2026-05-14 01:44:00.153333","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"CheckedFlag":0,"PublicFlag":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":1,"StatusID":1,"DasType":"Data","DasTypeID":1,"DasOrigin":"Sensor platform","Progress":"In Progress","AccessConstraint":"Attribution (CC BY)","AccConstrEN":"Attribution (CC BY)","AccConstrDisplay":"<a rel=\"license\" href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border:0px;height:15px;width:80px;vertical-align:middle;\" src=\"https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/cc/by.png\" /></a> This dataset is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.","License":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","AccConstrDescription":"This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.","Lineage":null,"AccConID":21},"dois":null,"spcols":[{"SpColID":131,"SpName":"Belgian marine datasets"}],"keywords":[{"ThesaurusTerm":"Data","ThesTypID":8,"ThesType":"Assemble KO Types","Code":null,"Description":null,"OrigThesTerm":"Data","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null},{"ThesaurusTerm":"Marine Genomics","ThesTypID":10,"ThesType":"Assemble Sectors","Code":null,"Description":null,"OrigThesTerm":"Marine Genomics","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null}],"parents":null,"children":[{"DasID":6383,"Acronym":null,"EngAbstract":"H_GRONINGEN - Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus, Accipitridae) breeding in Groningen (the Netherlands) is a bird tracking dataset collected by the Grauwe kiekendief - Kenniscentrum Akkervogels (GKA) / Dutch Montagu’s Harrier Foundation and published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data collected for the project/study H_GRONINGEN, using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study was operational from 2012 until 2018. In total 4 individuals of Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus) have been tagged in their breeding area in the province Groningen (the Netherlands) close to the Netherlands-Germany border, mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour.","License":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","StandardTitle":"H_GRONINGEN - Western marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus, Accipitridae) breeding in Groningen (the Netherlands)","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3552507","vlizDoi":null},{"DasID":6382,"Acronym":null,"EngAbstract":"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). 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