aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:24 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 GPS tracking data for 32 individual European nightjars in Humberhead Peatlands NNR from 2015-2018 2019-05-16 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb 10.5285/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb doi: Mitchell, L., White, P.C.L., Arnold, K.E. (2019). GPS tracking data for 32 individual European nightjars in Humberhead Peatlands NNR from 2015-2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb This dataset contains GPS data fixes (WGS84 format) from 32 European nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) . The data contains additional information on identity of the bird, date, time of fix acquisition, and the associated site and night number (between 6 and 17 nights of data, varying between individuals). These data were collected on the Humberhead peatlands NNR, South Yorkshire, from 2015 until 2018. Birds were caught in mist nets and tail-mounted miniaturised GPS tags (Pathtrack, Otley, UK; <3% bird bodyweight) were fitted by BTO-licensed researchers. Data were collected as part of a NERC ACCE-funded PhD. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb Mitchell, L. University of York ljr540@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-013X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author White, P.C.L. University of York Piran.white@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-5775 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Arnold, K.E. University of York Kathryn.arnold@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-6065 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Mitchell, L. University of York lucyjayneryan@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-013X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Species Distribution theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Caprimulgus europaeus Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Animal behaviour Environmental survey otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Mitchell, L., White, P.C.L., Arnold, K.E. (2019). GPS tracking data for 32 individual European nightjars in Humberhead Peatlands NNR from 2015-2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb textTable 10 English utf8 biota environment 2015-02-07 2018-07-16 -0.935 -0.897 53.55 53.64 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/aa20f8c4-bbdb-4dfa-82b4-b9b3fd8f34eb.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data were collected at Thorne (53.636, -0.89682) and Hatfield Moors (53.545, -0.93493), part of Humberhead Peatlands NNR, South Yorkshire. Tags were briefly calibrated to estimate error (between 5 - 25 metres depending on habitat type) and programmed to acquire fixes every 3 or 5 minutes (2015/16 and 2017/18 respectively). Nightjars captured by mist net from 21:00 to 01:00 using mist nets, under BTO licence. Birds were measured, ringed and equipped with a nanoFix mini GPS tag (Pathtrack, Otley, UK.) on the two central tail feathers. GPS data has been analysed to produce foraging tracks, home ranges and resource selection in ArcMap and R.