Bird Island female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; Fur Seals; Geolocation; Tracking; South Georgia; Bird Island; GPS RECEIVERS; GPS > Global Positioning System; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD SURVEYS; AMD; AMD/AU; CEOS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; South Georgia Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Arctocephalus gazella; South Atlantic Ocean; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/bird-island-female-tracking-data/2820177

Progress Code: completed To quantify the post-breeding movements of adult female Antarctic females (Arctocephalus gazella) we tracked females using Biotrack GLS (geolocation) data loggers. Females were captured towards the end of the lactation period (March/April) and the GLS tag, affixed to a Dalton flipper tag, was deployed in the trailing edge of the left or right foreflipper. Tags were generally retrieved just prior to or after giving birth the following season. Data files were extracted from the tags using BASTrak software. .lig - light data .tem - temperature data .act - activity data Metadata for each individual include: Site, year, GLS ID, sex, age, deployment site, lat and long of deployment site, flipper tag number, deployment and retrieval times (GMT).