Cornwall

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Details

Country
United Kingdom
Species
Eurasian jackdaw
Pipeline
No
Max. nr nestboxes
100
Running period
2013–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Individual data
Morphological measures
Personality data
Genetic data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basic breeding
Yes
Feeding at nest data
No
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General Information 
Responsible partyAlex Thornton (ORCID: 0000-0002-1607-2047)
Contactalex.thornton@exeter.ac.uk
OrganisationUniversity of Exeter
Other team membersGuill McIvor (ORCID: 0000-0003-3922-7651)
Luca Hahn (ORCID: 0000-0002-5187-1039)
Data availabilityno data available through SPI-Birds
Data licenseNA
FundingLeverhulme Trust grant no. RGP-2020-170
Study site 
NameCornwall
IDCON
CountryUnited Kingdom
Size (ha)838
Major site changes 
Latitude (decimal degrees N)50.1862
Longitude (decimal degrees E)-5.1885
Minimum elevation (m)52
Maximum elevation (m)155
Number of nest boxes (min)80
Number of nest boxes (max)100
EUNIS habitat codeX: Habitat complexes | X09: Pasture woods (with a tree layer overlying pasture)
Description of study sitehttps://www.wildcognitionresearch.com/cornish-jackdaw-project
Data 
SpeciesColoeus monedula
Start year2013
End year2024
Continuous collection of dataYes
Gap years 
Longest data collection12
Taggingcoloured leg ring
Brood data collectedclutch size, brood size, hatch date, lay date, fledgling number, fledge date
Individual data collectedchicks: hatching order, body mass on hatching date; body mass, tarsus and wing length on day 26 after hatching
adults: body mass, tarsus and wing length, full head and beak length and height, tail length, third primary feather; for some: birth year and sex
Environmental data collected 
Genetic data collectedblood, feathers (for subset)
Experimental manipulationsyes
Description of experimental manipulationsBehavioural experiments including playbacks, diffusion experiments testing social learning and automated experiments manipulating access to food and/or the value of social relationships
Other activitiesFor some nest boxes: data loggers at nest box entrance

Details

Country
United Kingdom
Species
Eurasian jackdaw
Pipeline
No
Max. nr nestboxes
100
Running period
2013–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Individual data
Morphological measures
Personality data
Genetic data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basic breeding
Yes
Feeding at nest data
No