README This data file is published by the Movebank Data Repository (www.datarepository.movebank.org). As of the time of publication, a version of this published animal tracking dataset can be viewed on Movebank (www.movebank.org) in the study "Dabbling duck migration Ottenby 2017 (Anas platyrhynchos, Anas acuta)" (Movebank Study ID 350174730). This published dataset includes data collected through 17 Nov 2018. Individual attributes in the data files are defined below and in the Movebank Attribute Dictionary, available at www.movebank.org/node/2381. This data package includes the following data files: Dabbling duck migration Ottenby 2017 (Anas platyrhynchos, Anas acuta).csv Dabbling duck migration Ottenby 2017 (Anas platyrhynchos, Anas acuta)-reference-data.csv These data are described in the following written publication: van Toor ML, Avril A, Wu G, Holan SH, Waldenström J (2018) As the duck flies: estimating the dispersal of low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses by migrating mallards. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00208 Data package citation: van Toor ML, Ottosson U, van der Meer T, van Hoorn S, Waldenström J (2018) Data from: As the duck flies: estimating the dispersal of low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses by migrating mallards. Movebank Data Repository. doi:10.5441/001/1.3fv21n7m ----------- Terms of Use This data file is licensed by the Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0) license. The intent of this license is to facilitate the re-use of works. 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See here for the full description of this license http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 ----------- Data Attributes These definitions come from the Movebank Attribute Dictionary, available at www.movebank.org/node/2381. acceleration raw X: Raw acceleration values provided by the tag for the X axis. Range and units may vary by provider, tag, and orientation of the sensor on the animal. example: 0.556641 units: not defined acceleration raw Y: Raw acceleration values provided by the tag for the Y axis. Range and units may vary by provider, tag, and orientation of the sensor on the animal. example: 0.09375 units: not defined acceleration raw Z: Raw acceleration values provided by the tag for the Z axis. Range and units may vary by provider, tag, and orientation of the sensor on the animal. example: -0.84375 units: not defined animal death comments: Comments about the death of the animal. example: hit by a car animal ID: An individual identifier for the animal, provided by the data owner. This identifier can be a ring number, a name, the same as the associated tag ID, etc. If the data owner does not provide an Animal ID, an internal Movebank animal identifier may sometimes be shown. example: 91876A, Gary same as: individual-local-identifier animal life stage: The age class or life stage of the animal at the beginning of the deployment. Can be years or months of age or terms such as "adult", "subadult" and "juvenile". Units should be defined in the values (e.g. "2 years"). example: juvenile, adult units: Any units should be defined in the remarks. animal mass: The mass of an the animal. example: 500 units: grams attachment type: The way a tag is attached to an animal. Values are chosen from a controlled list: collar: The tag is attached by a collar around the animal's neck. glue: The tag is attached to the animal using glue. harness: The tag is attached to the animal using a harness. implant: The tag is placed under the skin of the an animal. tape: The tag is attached to the animal using tape. other: user specified barometric height: Altitude estimated by a barometric pressure sensor on the tag. example: 179 units: m same as: bar:barometric height battery charge percent: The battery charge as a percentage of full charge. example: 25 units: none (percent) battery charging current: The battery charging current reported by the tag. example: 0 units: milliamperes (mA) deploy off person: The name of the person/people who removed the tag from the animal and ended the deployment. example: J. Smith deploy off timestamp: The timestamp when the tag deployment ended. example: 2009-10-01 12:00:00.000 format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.sss units: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or GPS time, which is a few leap seconds different from UTC same as: deploy off date deploy on person: The name of the person/people who attached the tag to the animal and began the deployment. example: G. Smith deploy on timestamp: The timestamp when the tag deployment started. example: 2008-08-30 18:00:00.000 format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.sss units: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or GPS time, which is a few leap seconds different from UTC same as: deploy on date deployment comments: Additional information about the tag deployment that is not described by other reference data terms. example: This deployment was excluded from analysis because the tag failed. deployment end type: A categorical classification of the tag deployment end. Values are chosen from a controlled list: captured: The tag remained on the animal but the animal was captured or confined. dead: The deployment ended with the death of the animal that was carrying the tag. equipment failure: The tag stopped working. fall off: The attachment of the tag to the animal failed, and it fell of accidentally. other released: The tag remained on the animal but the animal was released from captivity or confinement. removal: The tag was purposefully removed from the animal. unknown: The deployment ended by an unknown cause. deployment ID: A unique identifier for the deployment of a tag on animal, provided by the data owner. If the data owner does not provide a Deployment ID, an internal Movebank deployment identifier may sometimes be shown. example: Jane-Tag42 duty cycle: Remarks associated with the duty cycle of a tag during the deployment, describing the times it is on/off and the frequency at which it transmits or records data. example: it turns off during the night units: Any units should be defined in the remarks. event ID: An identifier for the set of information associated with each record or event in a data set. A unique event ID is assigned to every time-location or other time-measurement record in Movebank. example: 6340565 units: none GPS HDOP: Horizontal dilution of precision provided by the GPS. example: 1.2 units: unitless GPS satellite count: The number of GPS satellites used to estimate the location. example: 8 units: none GPS time to fix: The time required to obtain the GPS location fix. example: 36 units: seconds ground speed: The estimated ground speed provided by the sensor or calculated between consecutive locations. example: 7.22 units: meters per second heading: The direction in which the tag is moving, in decimal degrees clockwise from north, as provided by the sensor or calculated between consecutive locations. Values range from 0–360: 0 = north, 90 = east, 180 = south, 270 = west. example: 315.88 units: decimal degrees height above mean sea level: The estimated height of the tag above mean sea level returned by the GPS unit. (If altitudes are calculated as height above an ellipsoid, use height above ellipsoid.) example: 34 units: meters same as: height above msl import marked outlier: Identifies events as outliers. Typically used to import a record of outliers that were identified by the data provider or owner with automated methods outside of Movebank. Outliers have the value TRUE. THIS DATASET: This column can be ignored. latitude (decimal degree): The geographic longitude of a location along an animal track as estimated by the processed sensor data. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. example: -121.1761111 units: decimal degrees, WGS84 reference system same as: location lat light level: Light-level values measured by a solar geolocator. example: 28 units: undefined same as: gls:light level longitude (decimal degree): The geographic longitude of a location along an animal track as estimated by the processed sensor data. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. example: -121.1761111 units: decimal degrees, WGS84 reference system same as: location long magnetic field raw X: Raw magnetic field values provided by the tag for the X axis. example: -0.5197 units: gauss magnetic field raw Y: Raw magnetic field values provided by the tag for the Y axis. example: -0.993 units: gauss magnetic field raw Z: Raw magnetic field values provided by the tag for the Z axis. example: -0.8857 units: gauss manipulation type: The way in which the animal was manipulated during the deployment. Additional details about the manipulation can be provided using manipulation comments. Values are chosen from a controlled list: confined: The animal's movement was restricted to within a defined area. none: The animal received no treatment other than the tag attachment. relocated: The animal was released from a site other than the one at which it was captured. manipulated other: The animal was manipulated in some other way, such as a physiological manipulation. manually marked outlier: Identifies events flagged manually as outliers, typically using the Event Editor in Movebank. Outliers have the value TRUE. Ornitela transmission protocol: The way in which the data from Ornitela tags were transmitted. Allowed values are SMS or GPRS. units: none ring ID: A number or color scheme for a band or ring attached to the animal. example: 26225 units: none same as: animal ring id sensor type: The type of sensor with which data were collected. Values are chosen from a controlled list: acceleration: The sensor collects acceleration data. accessory measurements: The sensor collects accessory measurements, such as battery voltage. Argos Doppler shift: The sensor is using Argos Doppler shift for determining position. barometer: The sensor records air or water pressure. bird ring: The animal is identified by a ring that has a unique ID. GPS: The sensor uses GPS to find location and stores these. magnetometer: The sensor records the magnetic field. natural mark: The animal is identified by a natural marking. radio transmitter: The sensor is a classical radio transmitter. solar geolocator: The sensor collects light levels, which are used to determine position (for processed locations). solar geolocator raw: The sensor collects light levels, which are used to determine position (for raw light-level measurements). sex: The sex of the biological individual(s) represented in the Occurrence. Values are from a controlled list: m: male f: female study: The name of the study in Movebank in which data are stored. tag ID: A unique identifier for the tag, provided by the data owner. If the data owner does not provide a tag ID, an internal Movebank tag identifier may sometimes be shown. example: 2342, ptt_4532 same as: tag local identifier tag manufacturer name: The company or person that produced the tag. example: Holohil same as: manufacturer tag mass: The mass of the tag. example: 24 units: grams tag model: The model of the tag. example: T61 same as: model tag readout method: The way the data are received from the tag. Values are chosen from a controlled list: satellite: Data are transferred via satellite. phone network: Data are transferred via a phone network, such as GSM or AMPS. other wireless: Data are transferred via another form of wireless data transfer, such as a VHF radio transmitter/receiver. tag retrieval: The tag must be physically retrieved in order to obtain the data. tag serial number: The serial number of the tag. example: MN93-33243 units: none same as: tag serial no, serial no tag voltage: The voltage as reported by the tag. example: 2895 units: millivolts (mV) taxon: The scientific name of the species on which the tag was deployed, as defined by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov). If the species name can not be provided, this should be the lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined and that is used in the ITIS taxonomy. Additional information can be provided using the term taxon detail. example: Buteo swainsoni same as: species, animal taxon, individual taxon canonical name temperature external: The temperature measured by the tag (different from ambient temperature or internal body temperature of the animal). example: 32.1 units: degrees Celsius timestamp: The date and time a sensor measurement was taken. example: 2008-08-14 18:31:00.000 format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.sss units: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or GPS time, which is a few leap seconds different from UTC visible: Determines whether an event is visible on the Movebank Search map. Values are calculated automatically, with FALSE indicating that the event has been marked as an outlier by manually marked outlier or algorithm marked outlier. Allowed values are TRUE or FALSE. ----------- More Information For more information about this repository, see www.movebank.org/node/15294, the FAQ at www.movebank.org/node/2220, or contact us at support@movebank.org.