<p>&lt;em&gt;SPOONBILL_VLAANDEREN - Eurasian spoonbills (Platalea leucorodia, Threskiornithidae) in Flanders (Belgium)&lt;/em&gt; is a bird tracking dataset published by the &lt;a href="https://www.inbo.be/en"&gt;Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)&lt;/a&gt;. It contains animal tracking data collected by the LifeWatch GPS tracking network for large birds (&lt;a href="http://lifewatch.be/en/gps-tracking-network-large-birds"&gt;http://lifewatch.be/en/gps-tracking-network-large-birds&lt;/a&gt;) for the project/study &lt;strong&gt;SPOONBILL_VLAANDEREN&lt;/strong&gt;, using trackers developed by Ornitela (&lt;a href="https://www.ornitela.com/"&gt;https://www.ornitela.com&lt;/a&gt;). The study has been operational since 2022. In total 10 individuals of Eurasian spoonbill (&lt;em&gt;Platalea leucorodia&lt;/em&gt;) have been tagged at several locations in Flanders (Belgium), mainly to study their flight behaviour in a hostile environment of wind turbines and high-voltage power lines. Data are automatically synced with Movebank and from there periodically archived on Zenodo (see &lt;a href="https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking"&gt;https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking&lt;/a&gt;).</p><p>This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.</p><p>Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the &lt;a href="https://inbo.github.io/movepub/"&gt;movepub&lt;/a&gt; R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Spanoghe et al. (2024, &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12623685"&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12623685&lt;/a&gt;), a deposit of Movebank study &lt;a href="https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study2313947453"&gt;2313947453&lt;/a&gt;.</p>