Identification

Title

Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022

Abstract

This dataset contains information on reproductive events of blue and great tits recorded by manually inspecting approximately 300 to 500 nestboxes annually along a 35 km urban gradient in and around Glasgow, Scotland from 2014 to 2022. The datasets contain annually aggregated values per nestbox on clutch initiation, clutch size, number of hatchlings and fledglings. Data were collected to investigate the effects of urbanisation on daily activity patterns, reproductive traits and population dynamics of passerine birds. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Land Use

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-4.609

East bounding longitude

-4.251

North bounding latitude

56.125

South bounding latitude

55.861

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-04-01

End position

2022-06-20

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2024-08-06

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

We monitored an approximately 35 kilometre urban-non-urban gradient, with the extremes of the gradient being Glasgow city centre and Loch Lomond National Park, Scotland. This gradient has been monitored annually between 2014 and 2022 and has consisted of between five and twenty sites, depending on the year. Nestboxes were installed at all sites, approximately 50 metres from each other, with the number of nestboxes per site ranging from 5 to 161 dependent on the size of the site and the year of monitoring. During the breeding season (April – June) the nestboxes were monitored weekly through the nest-building and incubation stages. For each nestbox occupied by blue tits and great tits the first egg laying date was either directly observed in the field, or back calculated if the nest was found during egg laying but before incubation commenced, assuming one egg was laid per day. Clutch size was recorded as the maximum number of eggs observed during incubation. Fourteen days after incubation commenced nestboxes were checked every other day until chicks were observed. Thirteen days after hatching, chicks were marked with a unique metal ring. Nests were not checked again until at least 20 days after hatching to prevent premature fledging. At this final check, any dead chicks remaining in the nestbox were recorded and subtracted from the total number of chicks recorded alive 13 days after hatching to give the number of chicks that successfully fledged. At the end of every year data collected during that year was checked and uploaded on a central Access database. This database enables linking between datasets on reproductive attempts and individual bird information (mark-recapture data), both of which are deposited with the EIDC.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dominoni, D.M., Capilla-Lasheras, P., Branston, C.J. (2024). Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

Davide.dominoni@glasgow.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955

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