Golden Eagle GPS Tracking Data on Activity and Movement Across Scandinavia and Iberia

76 adult and immature Golden Eagles were tracked with GPS between 2010 and 2025. The dataset contains analyzed metrics on activity and movement, used to model responses to photoperiod and temperature across sub-Arctic to Mediterranean climates. It was authored by Daniel Gambra and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between animal activity and displacement based on GPS-derived metrics.
• Analyzing the impact of fixed photoperiod versus variable temperature on movement strategies.
• Comparing seasonal movement patterns like migration and nomadism across different latitudes.
• Testing generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) for repeated-measures animal tracking data.

Strengths

• Data spans 15 years (2010-2025), providing a long-term perspective.
• Includes GPS tracks from 76 individual eagles across a wide latitudinal gradient.
• Analysis accounts for repeated observations by individual identity and year.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the tracked populations in Scandinavia and Iberia.

Provenance

Source

Daniel Gambra via figshare.

Collection Method

Multi-annual GPS tracking data analyzed with generalized additive mixed models.

Time Range

2010 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 11:19:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scandinavia and Iberia, spanning approximately 35 degrees of latitude.