I have shape files of monthly kernel areas for a group of vultures. I also have a shape file of protected areas in a country. I want to determine how much the vultures are using protected areas. I guess this could be done in terms of proportion of time spent in protected areas, or the percentage of points located in protected areas. I'd also like to see if birds are roosting in protected areas, but perhaps feeding outside them, or vice versa, so I might want to divide the data into 'daytime' and 'nighttime', and then look at whether points are inside or outside protected areas. Does anyone have any advice please on a method I could use to do this? Are there repositories somewhere with shapefiles of protected areas for different countries? Thank-you.

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