Extreme altitude changes between night and day during marathon flights of great snipes. Lindström et al.

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These activity and air pressure data refer to tracks of migrating Great Snipes (Gallinago media), a 150-200 g wader/shorebird species. The particular birds under study migrate annually between breeding grounds in central Sweden and wintering grounds in equatorial Africa. For more information, see main paper.

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In the Excel-file, please read the READ THIS spreadsheet for metadata. The specifics of the multi-sensor loggers used can be found in the published paper (see DOI), as well as in several of the cited papers, not least Bäckman et al. 2016, 2017).

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