Red-tailed tropic bids foraging in Round Island (Mauritius)

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Data provider / contact information
Location
Country
Mauritius
Site
Round Island
Colony
Round Island
Dataset information
Dataset ID
2085
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Species
Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)
Device Type
GPS
Data are interpolated
Yes
Notes
The dataset includes GPS tracks (interpolated to 1 second sampling frequency) of red-tailed tropic birds foraging in February and March, and again in September and October of 2018.

Sex gender is an assumption based on the difference in weight between tagged birds of the same nest.

Acceleration data has been uploaded on the Movebank repository:

Garde B, Fell A, Krishnan K, Jones CG, Gunner R, Tatayah V, Cole NC, Lempidakis E, Shepard ELC. (under review). Data from: Thermal soaring in tropicbirds suggests that diverse seabirds may use this strategy to reduce flight costs. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.251

Meta Data
Sexes
Male
Number of Tracks
78
Number of Points
864044