Wouldn't there be 4 cases?

• numTags = 0, pulseCount = NA: No tags and no radio pulses
• numTags = 0, pulseCount > 0: No tags detected, but radio pulses detected (likely radio noise)
• numTags > 0, pulseCount = NA: Tags were detected, but no radio pulses were detected. (!! I don't think this option should make sense, but the activity table has a few rows that meet this condition)
• numTags > 0, pulseCount > 0: Tags and radio pulses detected (makes sense - this is the case where tagged birds are detected)

Very useful inclusion!!!

durations

Should be period rather than question mark (or the sentence could be rephrased into a question)

embedded?

R warning visible

It took me a little while to understand what this table + plot was showing, a note saying that it's the sum for all species would make it clearer ("grouped" by species could mean different things)

The first plot is a bar chart, not a histogram (as it isn't measuring counts and the bars aren't touching)

And what is the first plot measuring? I understand the boxplot to be the average % of days detected per-species. In the boxplot, Far Eastern Curlew have a mean of ~85%, but in the bar chart detection % is very low.

Austral summer

nice

"to identify VHF tags and record detection data"

Current wording reads as if the receiver is directly storing the VHF signal, rather than converting it into detection data

typo (double n in directional)

"respectively" usually comes at the end of the sentence:

"with eight and three stations respectively"

This comment is for the graph (couldn't select / comment on directly)

I think "Nb" is unclear for number, I've not personally seen the abbreviation used before - maybe "No." or something like "Good Records (N)" or "Good Records (Count)" would be clearer

Edit: This makes sense, I've just learned the French word for number!

Newcastle

This heading isn't very informative (I didn't know what was going to be in it until I read the section)

If it stays as 'Add Key Variables' adding subheadings could work (e.g. "Tide Data Processing", "Add to Dataset")

dataset

typo (data)

(This is very pedantic / not important if it's just us reading the site)

Technically is band number rather than ID

As above, could be simplified to "Band ID's are available in the Shorebird Tracker spreadsheet"

This is confusing / not informative - I think a very brief description or statement of the file would make sense

e.g. (see Shorebird Tracker spreadsheet)

Commented code + unfinished line; I'm assuming this isn't meant to be shown

speciesEN

unclear

(sorry for no actual suggested improvement; for the comments where I just say "unclear" it's where I am not 100% sure the meaning you're trying to convey)

typo

typo? (unsure)

Needs grammar fix - "Avoids to use high memory" is unclear

Maybe something like

"motus::dbConnect() links your .sql to your environment as a lazy table, preventing the entire database from being written straight to hardware memory."

Is this true?

This could maybe come earlier in the caption. Before reading the entire caption I didn't understand that the values for Total of days was a mean across the species.

Actually I just realised what I think is confusing me - "First day" and "Last day" are properties of the species, but "Total of days" and the other columns are average properties of individual birds.

Updated column / variable names could work, something like - First day (species) - Last day (species) - Active days

'Total' is a bit ambiguous, what do you think of 'Active'? Or something like "Tracking period" or "Monitoring period"? idk - Detected days (this one is clear) - Sites per day - Unique sites

(again trying to replace the word "total")

The term 'conditions' is a bit confusing here. When I first read "detection conditions", it sounded like conditions that impact whether a bird is detected or not, but it's really the conditions that the birds were detected in (I'm struggling to word this well too 😅).

Suggested alternatives - (about the) detection context (of each species) - (about the) tidal-diel conditions that each species is detected for

Or using plain language - about how species are detected across high and low tides, and day and night

When I clicked this it said

404 File not found

informative?

Hunter Bird Observers Club

and?

Should have a comment after "Professor)" for clarity:

"by Maxime Marini (PhD candidate), Andrea S. Griffin (Associate Professor), and many other collaborators."

Hello