Identification

Title

First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014

Abstract

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains first egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) from Monks Wood, Brampton Wood and Wennington Wood in Cambridgeshire, England, over a 22 year period. The dataset runs from the breeding season in 1993 to the end of the breeding season in 2014. The first egg dates are presented as the number of days from the start date which was set as the 1st April each year. Because the timing of breeding of great tits and blue tits is influenced in large part by ambient temperature and the phenology of their main prey, the data were collected as a measure of spring phenology. These data comprise part of a larger long-term study of the influence of habitat (extent, structure and composition) and landscape factors on abundance, distribution and breeding success of woodland birds in English lowland deciduous woodland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa.zip

name: Supporting Information

description: Supporting documents to assist in re-use of this resource.

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

Keyword set

keyword value

blue tits

great tits

breeding

deciduous woodland

Brampton Wood

Wennington Wood

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-0.283

East bounding longitude

-0.165

North bounding latitude

52.413

South bounding latitude

52.31

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1993-01-01

End position

2014-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-03-03

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Field data collected by trained and experienced personnel. Egg dates have been checked against original paper records. Numbers of lines of data have been checked and data values have been checked for outliers. Individual egg date values have been checked against mean values per year for each site.

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

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hinsley, S.A., Bellamy, P.E. (2015). First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-05-06T10:50:52

Metadata language

eng