The content of this dataset allows for replicating analyses and results on moult and fuelling found in Great Snipe, published:
"The interplay between flight feather moult and fuelling in Eastern European Great Snipes Gallinago media"
Witkowska M., Korniluk M., Pinchuk P., Tumiel T., Karlionova N., Meissner W.
2023 published in Journal of Zoology
FILES in the dataset:
/GS_moult_fueling_code.html contains:/
R code for data analysis performed on data contained in GS_database.csv and UZ_model.csv
/GS_database.csv contains variables:/
No - ordinal number for the observation
DayS - day of the season
Period - half month periods
Sex - sex of an individual
moult_cat - category of moult stage
SMI - scaled mass index calculated based on body mass and total head length
Weight - body mass
/UZ_model.csv contains variables:/
No - ordinal number for the observation
Date - date of capturing given individual (note: year is set in all cases as 1970, as only day and mouth of capture were important for the analysis)
DayS - day of the season
Sex - sex of an individual
Fat - fat score
SMI - scaled mass index calculated based on body mass and total head length
moult_cat - category of moult stage
pfmg - % of feather mass grown
(2024-01-22)