Yellow-legged gull locations in South Western Iberian Peninsula 2022

José Manuel Reyes-González1, Marina García-Alfonso1, Isabel Afán Asencio1, Manuela González Forero1, Francisco José Ramírez Benítez2

1 Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, C/Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain; 2 Institut de Ciències del Mar ICM-CSIC, Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

Corresponding author(s): José Manuel Reyes-González (josemanuel.delosreyes@gmail.com)Marina García-Alfonso (margaralf@gmail.com)Isabel Afán Asencio (isabelafan@ebd.csic.es)Manuela González Forero (mgforero@ebd.csic.es)

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Resource Citation

Reyes-González J M, García-Alfonso M, Afán Asencio I, González Forero M (2024). Yellow-legged gull locations in South Western Iberian Peninsula 2022. Version 1.7. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/dmwo2c https://doi.org/10.15470/dmwo2c

Abstract

Georreferenced locations of Yellow-legged gulls tracked with GPS (GPS-GSM system). 55 birds tagged at four different breeding localities of South Western Iberian Peninsula: Odiel marshes Natural Park (Huelva province, Spain), Cádiz Bay Natural Park (Cádiz province, Spain), Tarifa (Cádiz province, Spain), Gibraltar (UK). Time window: April to December 2022.

Keywords: Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Sustainability for Mediterranean Hotspots in Andalusia integrating LifeWatch ERIC (SUMHAL). Work package 4 (WP4): Combining field data, citizen science and IoT to monitor anthropogenic impacts on Andalusian biodiversity and society. Subproject: SEABIRDS
Personnel: José Manuel Reyes-González, Marina García-Alfonso, Manuela González Forero, Isabel Afán Asencio, Manuela González Forero
Funding: This study was funded by MICINN through European Regional Development Fund [SUMHAL, LIFEWATCH-2019-09-CSIC-04, POPE 2014-2020]
Study area descriptions/descriptor: South Western Iberian Peninsula

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=larmic

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Species: Larus michahellis
Common names: Yellow-legged gull

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Birds' ocurrencies in South Western Iberia, 2022.
Coordinates: 36°0'0''N and 38°0'0''N Latitude; 8°0'0''W and 3°0'0''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 18, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Methods

Method step description: GPS locations with a calculated speed over a threshold defined as the quartile 99% of calculated speed for the whole dataset are removed.
Study extent description: South Western Iberian Peninsula, particularly Odiel marshes Natural Park (Huelva province, Spain), Cádiz Bay Natural Park (Cádiz province, Spain), Tarifa (Cádiz province, Spain), Gibraltar (UK).
Sampling description: GPS locations of Yellow-legged gulls tracked with GPS (GPS-GSM system, 1 fix every 2 hours). Data may contain occasional gaps corresponding to moments when solar-powered tracking devices ran out of battery.
Quality control description: GPS locations with a calculated speed over a threshold defined as the quartile 99% of calculated speed for the whole dataset are removed.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Yellow-legged gull locations in South Western Iberian Peninsula 2022
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=larmic
Publication date of data: 2024-04-11
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-02-01
Hierarchy level: Dataset