Registry

• Movebank ID: The ID number of the study on Movebank (where applicable). An asterisc indicates that the number of individuals and locations in the study may not be split by species nor tag type.
• Study name: A short description of the study (usually the same as on Movebank).
• Species: Species tracked by the study.
• Number of individuals: Total number of unique individuals tracked by this study (in some cases, the same individual may have been tracked in several studies).
• Number of locations: Total number of data points collected during tag deployments (excluding: data points before the tag was fitted, after it was removed, any mortality events and marked as outliers).
• Tag type: Types of tags used in the study (for Solar Geolocator, some studies only have raw or twilight data available, in which case the field Number of locations is empty).
• Start year: First year of locations collected by the study.
• End year: Last year of locations collected by the study.
• Reference location: geographical coordinates, in decimal degrees, of the main locations where tags were deployed.
• Licence: The terms and conditions for using the data - those beginning with CC are Open Access licences; in other cases, a specific agreement with the data owner may be required before data can be viewed or used.
• Principal investigator: The person identified as lead investigator of the study (typically via their Movebank account, in which case the user name is given outside parenthesis).
• URL: The web address of the study.