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Tag deployments and ancillary data for seabirds breeding in the main Hawaiian Islands
In this study, we employed several bio-logging technologies to track at-sea movement and behavior of five main Hawaiian Island (MHI) breeding seabird species (Brown Booby [Sula leucogaster], Laysan Albatross [Phoebastria immutabilis], Red-tailed Tropicbird [Phaethon rubricauda], Red-footed Booby [Sula sula], and Wedge-tailed Shearwater [Ardenna pacifica]) at multiple breeding colonies on or near the islands of Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i. We utilized Global Positioning System (GPS) tags to track seabird spatial movements, temperature-depth recorders (TDRs) to measure diving and immersion patterns, and accelerometry to identify behaviors. The Deployments table provides details of all deployment and ancillary information for birds on which bio-loggers were deployed and for which data were recovered. Each record in this table (represented by a unique “DeployID”) is a deployment event of a bio-logging tag (or combination of tags) on a bird. Each record includes information on: 1. Bird identification (i.e. species, band numbers, breeding stage/phenology, sex, age, nest location, colony/site location); 2. Bio-logger tag types deployed, settings, and data recovered; 3. Deployment and recovery date/time; 4. Morphometric measurements (i.e. mass, culmen) and samples collected (i.e. blood for stable isotope analysis, diet) made at the time of tag deployment and/or recovery. Deployment and ancillary information provided in this table can be joined by DeployID to all types of bio-logger data contained in the other sections of this data release. Note that, although rare, some individuals (represented by a common band number across multiple records) may have been tagged more than once across study years (represented by different DeployID’s across records).
Author(s) |
Jonathan J Felis |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Beginning Date of Data | 2013-08-09 |
Ending Date of Data | 2016-06-04 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NTEXM6 |
Citation | Felis, J.J., Czapanskiy, M.F., and Adams, J., 2019, Tag deployments and ancillary data for seabirds breeding in the main Hawaiian Islands: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NTEXM6. |
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Metadata Date | 2020-08-30 |
Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
Access | public |
License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
Harvest Date: 2024-07-28T04:01:49.433Z