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Common loon winter archival geolocator tag location data

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2009-07-25
End Date
2013-12-31

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Kenow, K.P, Fara, L.J., Houdek, S.C., and Gray, B.R, 2021, Common loon migration and winter data: telemetry locations and archival geolocator tag location (ver 2.0, October 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UIDEMO.

Summary

Breeding common loons were obtained for the movement and foraging pattern study from lakes in central and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Both adults of a territorial pair were fitted with archival geolocator tags (Model LAT 2500; 34.6 x 8.3 mm, 4.4 g; Lotek Wireless Inc.). A combination of adhesive and plastic cable ties were used to affix the geolocator tag to a modified lock-on aluminum leg band. Tags were programmed to collect daily location estimates for up to two years, tag temperature (0.02 oC accuracy, ≤ 0.05 oC resolution) at 30-min intervals, and pressure data (±1% accuracy, 0.05% resolution) at 20-sec intervals during daylight hours to document foraging patterns (dive profiles) while [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kevin P Kenow
Originator :
Kevin P Kenow, Luke J Fara, Steven C Houdek, Brian R Gray
Metadata Contact :
Kevin P Kenow, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Common loon winter archival geolocator tag location data Final.xml
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COLO archival geolocator location data.csv 2.89 MB text/csv

Purpose

Archival geolocator tags were used to determine the migration patterns and wintering locations of breeding adult and young of the year juvenile common loons (Gavia immer) captured and marked on lakes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

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