Data from: Satellite tracking of American Woodcock reveals a gradient of migration strategies

# Satellite tracking of American Woodcock reveals a gradient of migration strategies Data and code for principal components analysis investigating migration strategy in American woodcock. ## Description of the data and file structure The two provided files, "amwo_migration_metrics_spring_clean.rds" and "amwo_migration_metrics_fall_clean.rds" contain data summarizing individual information and migration metrics for spring and fall migrations, respectively. There is one row for each individual American woodcock. All continuous data, including ordinal dates, are scaled and centered. The columns are as follows: nstop=number of stopovers mig_duration=migration duration depart_time= departure date arrive_time=arrival date coast_dist_km= mean distance from coast mig_dist_km=total migration distance straight_dist_km=distance from first to last point of migration sex= sex, f for female, m for male age=age, Adult or Young start_lat=starting latitude start_lon=staring longitude end_lat=ending latitude end_lon=ending longitude body_cond_index=body condition index year=year stop_duration=mean duration of stopping events dist_difference= difference between mig_dist_km and straight_dist_km ## Sharing/Access information More information about the American woodcock movement data can be found at woodcockmigration.org Data was derived from the following sources: * Raw Woodcock movement GPS data are archived on Movebank (“American Woodcock Migration Ecology in Eastern North America”; Study ID 3515664596) ## Code/Software The attached R script contains code for running the analysis in addition to plots for exploring results.