BirdMap Data - GPS tracking of Storks, Cranes and birds of prey, breeding in Northern and Eastern Europe
Citation
Adojaan K, Sellis U, Väli Ü, Ojaste I, Denac K, Lõhmus A, Ķuze J. BirdMap Data - GPS tracking of Storks, Cranes and birds of prey, breeding in Northern and Eastern Europe. PlutoF. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vnwmrx accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-17.Description
NGO Kotkaklubi (Eagle Club) and 5D Vision Ltd have developed an online portal birdmap.5dvision.ee, to visualize GPS data of migratory birds. Current dataset serves as a copy of source data for this visualization. The portal operates since 2006. Birds of 12 different species have been monitored, total number of individuals has been more than 160. Currently over 850 thousand occurrences (GPS fixes) are stored in the database. The data is managed via web-based backend that enables different methods of importing gps data (Movebank, manual upload for different receiver data formats). As the dataset covers long period of monitoring different species, various types of GPS transmitters have been used. Illustrated data about species and individuals can also be added. To enable publishing of the data to GBIF, synchronization to PlutoF biological data management platform was developed. The aim of the Birdmap portal is to increase awareness, international communication about nature and its protection by combining the possibilities and advancements of modern technology with this attractive natural phenomenon as well as providing researches and decision-makers with visualized spatial data for using in environmental analysis of possible influence of large-scale infrastructure projects. (Due to legal reasons exact location data of species with highest protection category in Estonia, belonging to Estonian territory, are not disclosed in this dataset and are available on request.)Taxonomic Coverages
Ciconia nigra, Pandion haliaėtus, Aquila clanga, Grus grus, Aquila pomarina, Haliaeetus albicilla, Buteo lagopus, Pernis apivorus, Buteo buteo, Ciconia ciconia, Aegypius monachus, Botaurus stellaris
Geographic Coverages
Europe, Africa, Middle East
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Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Kristjan Adojaanoriginator
position: technical manager of data and design
email: kristjan@adojaan.net
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-6595
Urmas Sellis
originator
position: project coordinator, data about storks and birds of prey
email: urmas@kotkas.ee
Ülo Väli
originator
position: scientific manager, data about birds of prey
email: ulo.vali@emu.ee
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2247-0658
Ivar Ojaste
originator
position: Estonian team, data about cranes
email: ivar.ojaste@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0555-3769
Katarina Denac
originator
position: Slovenian team, data about storks
email: katarina.denac@dopps.si
Asko Lõhmus
originator
position: Estonian team, data and research design about storks
email: asko.lohmus@ut.ee
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-8716
Jānis Ķuze
originator
position: Latvian team, data of eagles
email: janis.kuze@ldf.lv
Kristjan Adojaan
administrative point of contact
position: technical manager of data and design
email: kristjan@adojaan.net
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7901-6595