BOP_RODENT - Rodent specialized birds of prey (Circus, Asio, Buteo) in Flanders (Belgium)

Dataset

Description

BOP_RODENT - Rodent specialized birds of prey (Circus, Asio, Buteo) in Flanders (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 BOP_RODENT, using trackers developed by Ornitela (https://www.ornitela.com). The study has been operational since 2020. In total 18 individuals of 5 bird of prey species have been tagged at several locations in Flanders (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour. Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking).
Date made available14-Dec-2021
Temporal coverage18-Mar-2020 - 14-Dec-2021
Date of data production18-Mar-2020 - 14-Dec-2021
Geographical coverageEurope & Africa

Thematic List 2020

  • Protected nature
  • Data & infrastructure

Thematic list

  • Breeding birds
  • Farmland birds

EWI Biomedical sciences

  • B280-animal-ecology

Taxonomic list

  • birds (Aves)
  • Asio flammeus
  • Buteo buteo
  • Circus aeruginosus
  • Circus cyaneus
  • Circus pygargus

Geographic list

  • Flanders
  • Europe

Technological

  • GPS

Free keywords

  • animal movement
  • animal tracking
  • gps tracking
  • biologging
  • Movebank

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