Dominoni, D.M.; Capilla-Lasheras, P.; Branston, C.J.
Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022
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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
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https://doi.org/10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0
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.
Data were collected to investigate the effects of urbanisation on daily activity patterns, reproductive traits and population dynamics of passerine birds.
Publication date: 2024-08-06
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Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2014-04-01 to 2022-06-20
Provenance & quality
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.
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.
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
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
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University of Glasgow
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
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Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S005773/1
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13 August 2024 11:54