Table · dataset · 2026
Laterality in soaring flight — reproducibility deposit
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This deposit contains the derived data and the complete analysis code behind a study of turning-side preference in thermal-soaring flight, in the European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) and the white stork (Ciconia ciconia).
Description
All birds were tagged as nestlings and tracked from their first flights with solar GPS-IMU tags (e-obs GmbH), in four tracking studies: honey buzzards in Finland and Switzerland, golden eagles in the Central European Alps and southern Sweden, and white storks in south-western Germany.
Of 354 tagged birds, 339 remained after a-priori exclusions; 248 contributed valid circling data, 196 had longitudinal coverage, and 122 carried inertial measurement units. Data. Six gzipped CSV tables hold every derived quantity the analyses use. laterality_circles (1,676,539 rows) is the hub: one row per detected thermalling circle, a net 360 degrees of turning, with its turning side, angular velocity, wind, gust, updraft, kinematic bank and climb rate. laterality_bird_day (149,743 rows) and laterality_daily_stages (163,177 rows) give per-bird-day realised performance and annual-cycle stage. laterality_imu_acts (1,468,989 rows), laterality_imu_acts_wind (227,378 rows) and laterality_imu_vedba (8,822,425 rows) hold the inertial measurements: per-act tilt-free yaw and roll variability, the kriged wind field, and VeDBA and ODBA per 8-second window.
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Every column is defined in COLUMN_DICTIONARY.md. Code. The full pipeline is included, 67 R files and about 8,300 lines: the raw-to-table generation, the inferential layer, the multiplicity ledger, and every figure and table script. results/results_store.csv holds all 1,304 reported estimates across 31 analyses and is the single source of every number in the paper; figures and tables read it and hard-code nothing.
Reproduction. The deposit is self-contained from the first derived table onward. Rscript 00_run_all.R regenerates the results store and the figures from the six tables alone, with no Movebank access.
The package environment is pinned in renv.lock (R 4.6.0). An independent reproducibility audit regenerated a third of the store, including the keystone estimates, from the deposited tables on a drifted environment, matching the shipped values to the last digit. Full instructions, including how a raw-data holder regenerates the tables themselves, are in README.md.
Not included. The raw Movebank tracking data remain in their Movebank studies under their own data-use agreements, and the golden eagle field workbook is field metadata that is not distributed. Neither is needed to reproduce the published results.
Licensing. Data (data/): CC BY 4.0. Code (R/, figures/): MIT.
Links
Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page edmond.mpg.de/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.17617%2F3.X9P38E ↗
landing page · from edmond mpdl mpg de
- DOI doi.org/10.17617/3.x9p38e ↗
DOI / persistent id · from edmond mpdl mpg de
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API edmond.mpg.de/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi%3A10.17617%2F3.X9… ↗
metadata API · from edmond mpdl mpg de
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Chemistry · Computer Science & AI · Earth & Environmental Science · Economics & Finance · Engineering · Humanities · Life Sciences · Life Sciences · Materials Science · Medicine & Health · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics · Psychology & Behavioral Science · Psychology & Behavioral Science · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Longitudinal study 65% · Tabular 65% · Zoology 69%
Provenance · 2 source records, 27 field assertions
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