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BOP_RODENT - Rodent specialized birds of prey (Circus, Asio, Buteo) in Flanders (Belgium)

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)via GBIF, datasets uit en over Nederland · updated 13 October 2026

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BOP_RODENT - Rodent specialized birds of prey (Circus, Asio, Buteo) 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 BOP_RODENT , using trackers developed by Ornitela ( https://www.ornitela.com ) and Global Messenger ( https://www.gm-tracking.com ). The study has been operational since 2020. In total 61 individuals of five bird of prey species have been tagged at several locations in Flanders (Belgium), mainly to study their habitat use and migration 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 …

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