WIWO (NL) - Migration of Pacific Golden Plovers through North-Eastern Mongolia

Tom van der Have1, Doina Mani2, Niels Raes3

1 WIWO, P.O. Box 6521, NL-6503 GA, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 2 NLBIF, P.O. Box 93102, NL-1090 BC, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3 NLBIF, PO Box 9517, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, Netherlands

Corresponding author(s): Tom van der Have, Doina Mani (doinamani@gmail.com)

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Abstract

During a 16-day expedition in may 2005 the migration of Pacific Golden Plovers through the Mongol-Daguur Strictly Protected Area in North-Eastern Mongolia was monitored. Pacific Golden Plovers were caught using a Wilsternet. Additionally, passing flocks were counted, and casualties during catching were dissected.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Migration, North-Eastern Mongolia, Birds

General description

Purpose: To gain a better understanding of the stopover behaviour of Pacific Golden Plovers, and of the importance of this area for this wader species.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=wiwo87

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Pacific Golden Plover
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Pluvialis fulva
Common names: Pacific Golden Plover

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Mongol-Daguur Strictly Protected Area
Coordinates: 49°16'12''N and 49°57'0''N Latitude; 114°35'60''E and 116°5'60''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 15, 2005 - May 30, 2005

Methods

Method step description: Data was extracted for wiwo report 87. downloaded from: http://wiwo.org/wiworeport87mongolia2005.pdf.
Study extent description: During two weeks samples have been collected daily, at two locations. From the 15th of may until the 24th of May the sample location was Galuut Nuur lake and from the 26th of may untill the 30th of May the Khukh Nuur lake.
Sampling description: Pacific Golden Plovers were caught and ringed with the use of a wilsternet. The catchers wait behind a hide at about 30 metres distance from the net, with a pulling line attached to it. Besides dummy birds and a whistle to imitate the bird calls, a speaker setup playing recorded calls of the Pacific Golden Plover was used to attract the birds. The following variables were determined for all caught Pacific Golden Plovers; sex, age, body mass, and the sizes for wings, tatoe, headbill and bill. Casualties occurred among the caught birds, these were dissected, and additionally measured for the weight of body fat and the length of the digestive tract.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive WIWO (NL) - Migration of Pacific Golden Plovers through North-Eastern Mongolia
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.nlbif.nl/archive.do?r=wiwo87
Publication date of data: 2019-08-28
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-10-29
Hierarchy level: Dataset