Data Dictionary for Summary Data Download

Analysis and Data
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Any help with this would be appreciated:

I am a volunteer with the Audubon Society of Rhode Island (ASRI). ASRI\'s Director of Avian Conservation is supporting me in documenting the movements of birds detected at our Motus station (ASRI_Bristol, 13203). I obtained a sign-on and performed a download of Summary data for our station, which I was delighted to learn included not only the detections at our station, but also the record of detections for all the birds that have been detected at our station. This was right in line with my goals. Among the records of species detected at our Bristol, RI site were 5 that seemed way out of range (e.g. Lewis\'s Woodpecker), and in exploring the records of those species I found some inconsistencies that led me to believe that my self-appointed meanings of the download fields, e.g. stationName, previousStationName, tsStart, tsEnd, may not be correct. Could you please provide a data dictionary for Summary download station dataset so that I can be sure my column-definition understandings are correct? I can provide examples of the inconsistencies if you wish. Thank you. Steve Reinert

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Hi Steve, not quite the answer to your question, but something that might be helpful to your cause:

It looks like your station experienced a noise event around 07-29-2023, resulting in a influx of simultaneous false positives when the receiver was overloaded. The first step would be to filter out all data from the date range of this noise event, which is the likely culprit of the drastically out of range false positives or detections of tags that were no longer active. Link to Motus R Book false positive section is here.

Todd

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Thank you very much, Todd! -Steve