HG_JUVENILE - Juvenile herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) hatched at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium)

HG_JUVENILE - Juvenile herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) hatched at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds at Ghent University and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data for the project/study HG_JUVENILE, using trackers developed by Interrex (http://www.interrex-tracking.com). The study has been operational since 2022. In total 204 individuals of European herring gull (Larus argentatus) have been tagged. 150 individuals were raised from egg by Ghent University researchers at the Wildlife Rescue Center in Ostend, completed several cognitive and behavioural tests when approximately three weeks old, and were released in the IJzermonding, Nieuwpoort (Belgium). 54 additional individuals were tagged and released in the wild to collect baseline data. The main goal of the study is to link cognitive performance in the lab to behaviour in the wild. Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking). Files Data in this package are exported from Movebank study 2217728245. Fields in the data follow the Movebank Attribute Dictionary and are described in datapackage.json. Files are structured as a Frictionless Data Package. You can access all data in R via https://zenodo.org/records/16960867/files/datapackage.json using frictionless. datapackage.json: technical description of the data files. HG_JUVENILE-reference-data.csv: reference data about the animals, tags and deployments. HG_JUVENILE-gps-yyyy.csv.gz: GPS data recorded by the tags, grouped by year. Acknowledgements This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by the ERC and Ghent University.