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Bird breeding data for Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK, 2020 and 2021

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset contains information on the following: nest building, identity of breeding pairs, date when the first egg is laid, number of eggs, hatch date and the number and condition of fledglings for great tits, blue tits, marsh tits and coal tits. The data presented were collected in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK during April and June in 2020 and 2021 by Keith McMahon, Sam Croft and Kristina Beck, as part of a long-term nestbox project on the breeding biology of birds. The work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (Grant NE/S010335/1), The ecology of behavioural contagion in natural systems. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ae6f821a-35a1-4a37-af4d-ca7cb1c83a10

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
ae6f821a-35a1-4a37-af4d-ca7cb1c83a10
Extent (Latitude)
51.781° to 51.762°
Extent (Longitude)
-1.347° to -1.316°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2022-03-07
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Beck, K.B., Firth, J.A., McMahon, K., Croft, S., Cole, E.F., Sheldon, B. (2022). Bird breeding data for Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK, 2020 and 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ae6f821a-35a1-4a37-af4d-ca7cb1c83a10
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng