Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)

For the first time a Common Barn-owl (Tyto alba) individual was tracked using a GPS technology to evaluate the use of a commercial and economic GPS pet tracker device, and to test GPS tracking as a technique for determining movement patterns and foraging habitat selection. A GPS pet tracker device w...

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Autores principales: Massa, Carolina, Cueto, Gerardo Ruben
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa
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spelling paper:paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa2023-06-08T15:06:40Z Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba) Massa, Carolina Cueto, Gerardo Ruben Common barn-owl Foraging habitat selection GPS Movement patterns Tyto alba For the first time a Common Barn-owl (Tyto alba) individual was tracked using a GPS technology to evaluate the use of a commercial and economic GPS pet tracker device, and to test GPS tracking as a technique for determining movement patterns and foraging habitat selection. A GPS pet tracker device was removed from its plastic frame and attached to the back of an adult male. The device recorded during eight consecutive nights a total of 12501 waypoints. The home range, estimated as the minimum convex polygon, was 1746 ha. Tracks obtained allowed the identification of three movement patterns that could be attributed to different behaviours: meandering, linear and point, corresponding to hunting, straight-lined flights and roosting, respectively. The overlap of tracks with a land cover map revealed that the owl selected vegetated areas (except where pigs were present) and barren areas with pigs for hunting. The use of this technique represents an improvement for behavioural studies of this species. © 2015, Association Ornitologica del Plata. All rights reserved. Fil:Massa, C. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Cueto, G.R. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2015 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa
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topic Common barn-owl
Foraging habitat selection
GPS
Movement patterns
Tyto alba
spellingShingle Common barn-owl
Foraging habitat selection
GPS
Movement patterns
Tyto alba
Massa, Carolina
Cueto, Gerardo Ruben
Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
topic_facet Common barn-owl
Foraging habitat selection
GPS
Movement patterns
Tyto alba
description For the first time a Common Barn-owl (Tyto alba) individual was tracked using a GPS technology to evaluate the use of a commercial and economic GPS pet tracker device, and to test GPS tracking as a technique for determining movement patterns and foraging habitat selection. A GPS pet tracker device was removed from its plastic frame and attached to the back of an adult male. The device recorded during eight consecutive nights a total of 12501 waypoints. The home range, estimated as the minimum convex polygon, was 1746 ha. Tracks obtained allowed the identification of three movement patterns that could be attributed to different behaviours: meandering, linear and point, corresponding to hunting, straight-lined flights and roosting, respectively. The overlap of tracks with a land cover map revealed that the owl selected vegetated areas (except where pigs were present) and barren areas with pigs for hunting. The use of this technique represents an improvement for behavioural studies of this species. © 2015, Association Ornitologica del Plata. All rights reserved.
author Massa, Carolina
Cueto, Gerardo Ruben
author_facet Massa, Carolina
Cueto, Gerardo Ruben
author_sort Massa, Carolina
title Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
title_short Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
title_full Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
title_fullStr Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
title_full_unstemmed Using GPS tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common Barn-owl (Tyto alba)
title_sort using gps tracking to determine movement patterns and foraging habitat selection of the common barn-owl (tyto alba)
publishDate 2015
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00733407_v30_n1_p_Massa
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