American Avocet and Wilson’s Phalarope Locations and Ancillary Data Associated with the U.S. Geological Survey Saline Lake Ecosystems Integrated Water Availability Assessment Program

These data describe tracking information and provide location data of American avocets (from 2023-03-18 to 2024-12-31) and Wilson’s phalaropes (from 2023-08-17 to 2023-11-10) collected in support of the U.S. Geological Survey Saline Lakes Ecosystems Integrated Water Availability Assessment Program (USGS SLE IWAA). The data are provided using standardized formats and an attribute dictionary produced by the Movebank platform (movebank.org). These spreadsheets are a subset of an interrelated relational database that can be recreated by joining key fields. Please refer to the Movebank attribute dictionary (https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/movebank-attribute-dictionary or https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/) for field definitions. Vocabularies used are current as of the publication date of this edition of the metadata release.

These data have been reviewed and corrected with defined Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) steps during the course of data collection. These methods include identification of mortalities and translational errors in digital transmission of data resulting in gross positional or temporal errors such as transposed digits. Outlier locations have been removed from the complete record of locations. These data represent the final annual data release approved by the U.S. Geological Survey and corresponding to the provisional data release titled: Bird Marking and Location Data in Support of the Saline Lake Ecosystems Integrated Water Availability and Assessment (Provisional Release, December 2025), https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/66db43c1d34eef5af66d9332.