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Great tit behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, UK, 2021-2023

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Summary

This dataset relates to two closely related experiments conducted using similar methodologies: one - Discrimination Ability experiment - from December 2021 to May 2022 and another - Multiple Models experiment - from October 2022 to April 2023. Data describe the responses of wild birds (mainly Great tits Parus major) towards feeding stations where insect-like stimuli concealed a possible food reward. Data include: Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag records of birds visiting the feeders (note that not all birds were tagged); demographic information about the tagged birds; timings and set-up of the feeders used at each session; and which stimuli from each session were “attacked” (and in what order). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf
Extent (Latitude)
52.219° to 52.215°
Extent (Longitude)
0.048° to 0.052°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-08-05
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, C., Bell, D., Burdett, S., Codyre, A., Cooley, K., Gandhi, S.R., Ogilvie, E., Pond, A.L., Davidson, G.L., Rowland, H.M., Gilbert, F., Reader, R. (2024). Great tit behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, UK, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf
Responsible party
University of Nottingham (author); University of Nottingham (author, pointOfContact, owner); University of Cambridge (author); Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (author); (publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng