Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking
Sensors, such as accelerometers, in tracking devices allow for detailed bio-logging to understand animal behaviour, even in remote places where direct observation is difficult. To study breeding in birds remotely, one needs to understand how to recognize a breeding event from tracking data, and idea...
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ftknawnlpublic:oai:pure.knaw.nl:publications/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a 2024-05-12T07:53:07+00:00 Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking Schreven, K.H.T. Stolz, Christian Madsen, Jesper Nolet, B.A. 2021 application/pdf https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00249-9 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11755/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a https://pure.knaw.nl/ws/files/251437209/7238_Schreven.pdf eng eng https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Schreven , K H T , Stolz , C , Madsen , J & Nolet , B A 2021 , ' Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking ' , Animal Biotelemetry , vol. 9 , 25 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00249-9 Anser brachyrhynchus ODBA incubation nesting duration brood parental care recess international Plan_S-Compliant_OA article 2021 ftknawnlpublic https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00249-920.500.11755/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a 2024-04-18T00:01:10Z Sensors, such as accelerometers, in tracking devices allow for detailed bio-logging to understand animal behaviour, even in remote places where direct observation is difficult. To study breeding in birds remotely, one needs to understand how to recognize a breeding event from tracking data, and ideally validate this by direct observation. We tagged 49 adult female Pink-footed Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) with transmitter neckbands in Finland in spring of 2018 and 2019, and in Svalbard in summer 2018, and validated inferences from tracking by field observations of nesting sites and family status in 2018-2020 (54 spring-summer tracks). We estimated nesting locations by taking the median coordinates of GPS-fixes at which the goose was motionless (overall dynamic body acceleration, ODBA<1) on days with a daily median ODBA<1, which approached the real nesting locations closely (within 1.6-3.7 m, n=6). The start of nesting was defined as the first day on which the goose spent >75% of time within 50 m of the nest, because nest site attendances steeply increased within one day to above this threshold. Nesting duration (number of consecutive days with >75% nest site attendance) ranged between 3-44 days (n=28), but was 30-34 days in confirmed successful nests (n=9). The prolonged nesting of 39-44 days (n=3) suggested incubation on unhatchable egg(s). Nest losses before hatching time occurred mostly in day 3-10 and 23-29 of nesting, periods with an increased frequency of nest site recesses. As alternative method, allowing for non-simultaneous GPS and accelerometer data, we show that nesting days were classified with 98.6% success by two general characteristics of breeding: low body motion (daily median ODBA) and low geographic mobility (daily SD of latitude). Median coordinates on nesting days approached real nest sites closely (within 0.8-3.6 m, n=6). When considering only geographic mobility (allowing for GPS data only) nesting locations were similarly accurate, but some short nesting attempts were undetected ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Anser brachyrhynchus Arctic Arctic Svalbard KNAW: Research Explorer (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Arctic Recess ENVELOPE(-61.516,-61.516,-64.500,-64.500) Svalbard Animal Biotelemetry 9 1 |
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Sensors, such as accelerometers, in tracking devices allow for detailed bio-logging to understand animal behaviour, even in remote places where direct observation is difficult. To study breeding in birds remotely, one needs to understand how to recognize a breeding event from tracking data, and ideally validate this by direct observation. We tagged 49 adult female Pink-footed Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) with transmitter neckbands in Finland in spring of 2018 and 2019, and in Svalbard in summer 2018, and validated inferences from tracking by field observations of nesting sites and family status in 2018-2020 (54 spring-summer tracks). We estimated nesting locations by taking the median coordinates of GPS-fixes at which the goose was motionless (overall dynamic body acceleration, ODBA<1) on days with a daily median ODBA<1, which approached the real nesting locations closely (within 1.6-3.7 m, n=6). The start of nesting was defined as the first day on which the goose spent >75% of time within 50 m of the nest, because nest site attendances steeply increased within one day to above this threshold. Nesting duration (number of consecutive days with >75% nest site attendance) ranged between 3-44 days (n=28), but was 30-34 days in confirmed successful nests (n=9). The prolonged nesting of 39-44 days (n=3) suggested incubation on unhatchable egg(s). Nest losses before hatching time occurred mostly in day 3-10 and 23-29 of nesting, periods with an increased frequency of nest site recesses. As alternative method, allowing for non-simultaneous GPS and accelerometer data, we show that nesting days were classified with 98.6% success by two general characteristics of breeding: low body motion (daily median ODBA) and low geographic mobility (daily SD of latitude). Median coordinates on nesting days approached real nest sites closely (within 0.8-3.6 m, n=6). When considering only geographic mobility (allowing for GPS data only) nesting locations were similarly accurate, but some short nesting attempts were undetected ... |
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Schreven, K.H.T. Stolz, Christian Madsen, Jesper Nolet, B.A. |
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Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking |
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Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking |
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Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking |
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Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking |
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Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking |
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nesting attempts and success of arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and gps-tracking |
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https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00249-9 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11755/988765f8-5f50-41be-968d-ca368d5f184a https://pure.knaw.nl/ws/files/251437209/7238_Schreven.pdf |
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Schreven , K H T , Stolz , C , Madsen , J & Nolet , B A 2021 , ' Nesting attempts and success of Arctic-breeding geese can be derived with high precision from accelerometry and GPS-tracking ' , Animal Biotelemetry , vol. 9 , 25 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00249-9 |
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