HG_TEXEL - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding in Texel (the Netherlands)

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Amsterdam / IBED on Sep 4, 2026 University of Amsterdam / IBED
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September 4, 2026
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Description

HG_TEXEL - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding in Texel (the Netherlands) is a bird tracking dataset published by the University of Amsterdam and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data for the study HG_TEXEL using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study was operational from 2013 until 2022. In total 31 individuals of European herring gull (Larus argentatus) have been tagged in their breeding area in the Kelderhuispolder on Texel, a Wadden Island in the Netherlands. The main goal of the study is to identify their primary foraging areas and resources during the breeding season and the consequences of habitat change on these birds. 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.These data were collected by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Management of UvA-BiTS field stations and tracker settings was supported by Willem Bouten and Edwin Baaij. Permission to work in the colony was granted by Staatsbosbeheer Texel. The research infrastructure was supported by LifeWatch, SURF Foundation and the Dutch national e-science centre (NLeSC) and carried out on the Dutch national e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative. The dataset was published with funding from Stichting NLBIF - Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are subsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Shamoun-Baranes et al. (2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22297895), a deposit of Movebank study 8872869475.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 371,173 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
371173
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
62

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Shamoun-Baranes J, van Donk S, Shinneman S, Govaert S, Desmet P, Camphuysen K C (2026). HG_TEXEL - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) breeding in Texel (the Netherlands). Version 1.0. University of Amsterdam / IBED. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=hg_texel&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Amsterdam / IBED. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0fbb0a64-f8ae-4cb2-9045-c992f3ea45c9.  University of Amsterdam / IBED publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

animal movement; animal tracking; gps tracking; accelerometer; altitude; temperature; biologging; birds; UvA-BiTS; Movebank; frictionlessdata; Occurrence

Contacts

Judy Shamoun-Baranes
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
Susanne van Donk
  • Originator
Stacy Shinneman
  • Originator
Sanne Govaert
  • Originator
Peter Desmet
  • Originator
Kees C.J. Camphuysen
  • Originator
Judy Shamoun-Baranes
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact