Table 3 Data known to be available for the study area and of great use for this work but not publically made available or useable (Note: Best professional practices, the International Polar Year, Migrator Bird Treaties, and most national funding schemes make Open Access data sharing mandatory; see 19 for a reality assessment and as found here).

From: Modeling Eastern Russian High Arctic Geese (Anser fabalis, A. albifrons) during moult and brood rearing in the ‘New Digital Arctic’

Data set name

Content

Source

Comment

Movebank

Geolocations

Various funders

Most data generally blocked behind login

Goose tagging

Locations

China

Most data generally not made publically available regardless of publication

Bird Banding

Banding location, resighting and recovery

National Bird Banding Center

EURING, nor the EU, is explitely not sharing geo-referenced data in GBIF

(International) expedition sighting records

Documented locations of presence and absence

Many researchers, institutions and NGOs worldwide

Those various data were collected and exist for over 50 years in the study area

*Citizen Science data

Documented locations of presence and absence

Many tourists, naturalists, governmental employees and researchers worldwide

iNaturalist, eBIRD etc. are growing rapidly

  1. *Data are readily available but show little coverage and information for the study area, yet.
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