DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1248902.v1
title: Data from: Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird depends on sex, time of a day, and weather

description: Description of datasets from the manuscript “Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird depends on sex, time of a day, and weather” by Bulla M, Stich E, Valcu M, and Kempenaers B submitted to IBIS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions can be directed to: Martin Bulla (bulla.mar@gmail.com) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data collection and how the individual variables and datasets were derived is described in the paper.<br>Data are available as five text files.<br>Missing values are NA.<br>Values are separated by semi-colon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHEN USING THESE DATA, PLEACE CITE THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT: Bulla M, Stich E, Valcu M, and Kempenaers B (in review). Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird depends on sex, time of a day, and weather. ADDITIONALLY, PLEASE CITE THE FIGSHARE.COM DATA: Bulla M, Stich E, Valcu M, and Kempenaers B. 2014. Data from: Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird depends on sex, time of a day, and weather. figshare.com<br>Available at: http://figshare.com/articles/Data_from_Off_nest_behaviour_in_a_biparentally_incubating_shorebird_depends_on_sex_time_of_a_day_and_weather/1248902 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The R-script is available from:<br>Bulla M, Stich E, Valcu M, and Kempenaers B. 2014. R-script from: Off-nest behaviour in a biparentally incubating shorebird depends on sex, time of a day, and weather. figshare.com<br>Available at: http://figshare.com/articles/R_script_from_Off_nest_behaviour_in_a_biparentally_incubating_shorebird_depends_on_sex_time_of_a_day_and_weather/1248905 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annotations of data-files<br>A) 2011_off_nest.txt<br>-- contains raw data used to calculate the observation means and summaries<br>1. datetime_: date and time of each 30s observation<br>2. inc_start_j: a day within the breeding season when the birds at a given nest initiated the incubation (1 is June 1, 2011)<br>3. day: a day of incubation (1 is the first day of incubation in a given nest)<br>4. day_se: a day of breeding season(1 is June 1, 2011)<br>5. nest: unique identity of the nest<br>6. ID: unique identity of the bird<br>7. sex: sex of the bird (f = female, m = male)<br>8. session: unique identity of the observation session<br>9. behavior: categories of observed behaviour: 0 - unobservabel (out of sight), wf - water feeding, gf - ground feeding, w - walking, i - interacting, mb - motor boat display, f - flying, p - preening, s - sleeping, r - resting<br>10. distm: off-nest distance (of the observed bird) from the nest in m<br>11. lat_n: latitude coordinate of the nest location<br>12. lon_n: longitude coordinate of the nest location<br>13. lat: latitude coordinate of the off-nest location of the observed bird<br>14. lon: longitude coordinate of the off-nest location of the observed bird<br>15. culmen: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>16. totalHead: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>17. tarsus: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>18. wing: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>19. weight: of the observed individual (in g)<br>20. t_tundra_avg: 30 s mean tundra temperature (in °C)<br>21. wind_sp: 30 s mean wind speed (in m/s)<br>22. time_off: time (in min) since the observed individual left its nest<br>23. author: observer (A or B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B) 2011_off_nest_mean.txt<br>-- contains data used in the off-nest distance and behaviour models<br>1. nest: unique identity of the nest<br>2. ID: unique identity of the bird<br>3. sex: sex of the bird (f = female, m = male)<br>4. session: unique identity of the observation session<br>5. datetime_: date and time of the beggining of the observation session<br>6. inc_start_j: a day within the breeding season when the birds at a given nest initiated the incubation (1 is June 1, 2011)<br>7. day: a day of incubation (1 is the first day of incubation in a given nest)<br>8. day_se: a day of breeding season(1 is June 1, 2011)<br>9. time: time of day in hours<br>10. f_count: count of 30s observations (within observation session) with feeding<br>11. no: count of 30s observations (within observation session) without feeding<br>12. n: number of 30s within observation session<br>13. distm: mean off-nest distance (of the observed bird) from the nest in m<br>14. lat_n: latitude coordinate of the nest location<br>15. lon_n: longitude coordinate of the nest location<br>16. lat: mean latitude coordinate of the off-nest location of the observed bird<br>17. lon: mean longitude coordinate of the off-nest location of the observed bird<br>18. culmen: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>19. totalHead: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>20. tarsus: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>21. wing: of the observed individual (in mm)<br>22. weight: of the observed individual (in g)<br>23. t_tundra: mean tundra temperature of the observation session (in °C)<br>24. wind_sp: mean wind speed of the observation session (in m/s)<br>25. time_off: time (in min) since the observed individual left its nest<br>26. bout_length: length of off-duty bout in hours<br>27. bout_after: length of the following incubation bout in hours<br>28. author: observer (A or B) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C) pooping.txt<br>-- contains data on defecation<br>1. ID: unique identity of the bird<br>2. sex: sex of the incubating bird (f = female, m = male)<br>3. datetime_: date and time when observation started<br>4. day: a day of breeding season (1 is July 1, 2013)<br>5. m_n_: day (between 1200 and 1900 hours) or night (between 0000 and 0600 hours)<br>6. first poop: time span from the inititation of observation until he first poop (in minutes)<br>7. time_total: length of observation session (in minutes)<br>8. time_unknown: time (in minutes) within observation session, for which the defecation was unobservable<br>9. seen: effective observation time (time_total minus time_unknown)<br>10. t_tundra: mean tundra temperature (in °C) for 30 min prior to observation (i.e., for time span between datetime_ and datetime_ - 30 min)<br>11. wind_speed: mean wind speed (m/s) for 30 min prior to observation (i.e., for time span between datetime_ and datetime_ - 30 min)<br>12. lat: latitude coordinate of the observation location<br>13. lon: longitude coordinate of the observation location -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D) 2011_envi_10min_mean.txt<br>-- contains data used to discribe the change of tundra temperature and wind speed over the 2011 breeding season<br>1. dateime_10m: date and time when the 10 min started<br>2. time: in hours<br>3. day: a day of breeding season (1 is June 1)<br>4. t_tundra: 10 min mean tundra temperature (in °C)<br>5. wind_sp: 10 min mean wind speed (in m/s) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------