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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: ![]() 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).
Lineage Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Birds Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Terrestrial, Animal behaviour, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Breeding grounds, Breeding habitats, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Tagging, Tracking, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, 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 Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Release date: 2023-04-27 Metadatarecord created: 2021-12-02 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 |