O_WESTERSCHELDE - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding in East Flanders (Belgium)
Citation
Spanoghe G, Desmet P, Milotic T, Van Ryckegem G, Vanoverbeke J, Ens B J, Bouten W (2025). O_WESTERSCHELDE - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding in East Flanders (Belgium). Version 1.2. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=o_westerschelde&v=1.2 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3734898
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Desmet, Peter Availability:
 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.Description
O_WESTERSCHELDE - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding in East 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 O_WESTERSCHELDE, using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study was operational from 2018 to 2020. In total 13 individuals of Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) have been tagged in their breeding area in East Flanders (Belgium), west of the river Scheldt, mainly to study their habitat use on mudflats of the Western Scheldt (the Netherlands). Data are uploaded from the UvA-BiTS database to Movebank and from there archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking). No new data are expected. See van der Kolk et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1123.90623) for a more detailed description of this dataset. moreThis dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch. Additional funding was provided by the Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology. Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Spanoghe et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5879096), a deposit of Movebank study 1099562810. 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 · Fresh water · Brackish water · Terrestrial · Accelerometers · ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde · Animal behaviour · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Breeding grounds · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Logging · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Tracking · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Oost-Vlaanderen (Province) · Westerschelde · Haematopus ostralegus Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 0,1078; MinLat: 49,4151 - MaxLong: 4,31; MaxLat: 51,6182 [WGS84] Oost-Vlaanderen (Province) [Marine Regions] Westerschelde [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 2018 on [In Progress] 24 May 2018 - 11 April 2020 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Haematopus ostralegus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2023-04-27
Metadatarecord created: 2021-11-29
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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