Dataset

Waved Albatross Tracking (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Original provider: Wake Forest University Dataset credits: David Anderson, Wake Forest University Abstract: All birds studied via satellite tracking were nesting in the same part of the breeding colony at Punta Cevallos, on the eastern point of Isla Española (Galápagos archipelago). In 2000 and 2001, a tape attachment method was used to attach Platform Transmitter Terminals (PTTs; Microwave Telemetry Inc., Columbia MD USA) to the dorsal feathers of birds at the nest. The birds were tracked using the satellites of the Argos System (Service Argos, Largo MD USA). In 2000, five PTTs used this duty cycle, while two others transmitted continuously, and in 2001 all six transmitters transmitted continuously. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Citation: Hyrenbach, D. and D. Anderson. 2012. Waved Albatross Tracking. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/0d93cc22.

Published: October 10, 2025 at 12:19

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_324_1deg

David Anderson
Wake Forest University

David Hyrenbach
Duke University Marine Laboratory

58
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 58
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 58
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 58
100.0%
ON_LAND 4
6.9%

Measurement types

DNA derived data