TURTUR_VLAANDEREN - European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur, Columbidae) breeding in Flanders (Belgium)
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TURTUR_VLAANDEREN - European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur, Columbidae) breeding in Flanders (Belgium) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) . It contains animal tracking data collected by the LifeWatch GPS tracking network for large birds ( https://lifewatch.be/birds ) for the project/study TURTUR_VLAANDEREN , using trackers developed by Global Messenger ( https://www.gm-tracking.com ). The study has been operational since 2025. In total 13 individuals of European turtle dove ( Streptopelia turtur ) have been tagged at several locations in Flanders (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and foraging behaviour. Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking ). This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch. Additional funding was provided by Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos (ANB). Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are subsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original …