Data from: Identification of migratory bird flyways in North America using community detection on biological networks ...

• Main Authors: Buhnerkempe, Michael G., Webb, Colleen T., Merton, Andrew A., Buhnerkempe, John E., Givens, Geof H., Miller, Ryan S., Hoeting, Jennifer A.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: consolidation factor; flyways; Waterfowl; Anas acuta; Branta canadensis; Anas carolinensis; community detection; Anas platyrhnchos; Canada; Canada Goose
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qs552; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qs552

Migratory behavior of waterfowl populations in North America has traditionally been broadly characterized by four north-south flyways, and these flyways have been central to the management of waterfowl populations for more than 80 years. However, previous flyway characterizations are not easily updated with current bird movement data and fail to provide assessments of the importance of specific geographical regions to the identification of flyways. Here, we developed a network model of migratory movement for four waterfowl species —mallard (Anas platyrhnchos), northern pintail (A. acuta), American green-winged teal (A. carolinensis), and Canada goose (Branta canadensis) — in North America using bird band and recovery data. We then identified migratory flyways using a community detection algorithm and characterize the importance of smaller geographic regions in identifying flyways using a novel metric, the consolidation factor. We identified four main flyways for mallards, northern pintails, and American ... : Band encounter data from hunter recovered mallards (MALL), northern pintails (NOPI), American green-winged teal (AGWT), and Canada geese (CAGO) between 2004 and 2013 in North America.Included fields are the band number (BAND), species (SPEC), banding date (BMONTH, BDAY, BYEAR), recovery date (RMONTH, RDAY, RYEAR), banding location reported at the node level (BNODELAT, BNODELONG), and recovery location reported at the node level (RNODELAT, RNODELONG). For information on requesting the full band and encounter data, please go to https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/homepage/datarequest.cfm.BandData_2014Feb12.csv ...