General Information
Data owner Anvar Kerimov, Elena Ivankina, Andrey Bushuev, Tatyana Ilyina are the owners  of data on Pied Flycatcher;  Anvar Kerimov, Elena Ivankina, Tatyana Ilyina are the owners  of data on Great Tit.
Contact anvar_kerimov@mail.ru; ivankinalena@yandex.ru; a_bushuev@mail.ru; t_ilyina_msu@mail.ru
Institution Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Conditions of use/Licence 1)the data may be treated and publicly available according to permission  of data owner; 2) data collection was made according to the scientific plans of our institute, and during last years is covered by permission of Bioethical Committee of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Data available via pipeline No
Quality check of the original data Check outliers using primary sourses and regulary compare the results of individual morphophysiological mesurements within the research team. 

 

Study site
Name Zvenigorod Biological Station, Russia
Size (ha) 715
Major site changes Yes, from 200 to 715 ha
Latitude 55°41' N
Latitude 36°43' E
Number of nest boxes (min) 354
Number of nest boxes (max) 715
Vegetation Type Evergreen and mixed. Mainly coniferous forest (common spruce is dominated, there are also pine, common birch in upper tier)  on the watershed (>500 ha) and rich spruce (close to mixed) forest in the Moskva-river valley (~100 ha) with spruce, pine, birch, lime, aspen and mapel in  upper tier) 
Description of study site See Kerimov et al.,2018 

 

Species
Species Parus major; Ficedula hypoleuca
Start year 1996 for the Great Tit (the period 1981-1995 with reduced data on individual traits will be avaibable soon); 1996 for the Pied Flycatcher (the period 1988-1995 with reduced data on individual traits will be avaibable soon)
End year NA
Continuous collection of data Yes
Gap years no
Longest data collection 24 (39)
Parental ID's recorded Yes
List of basic breeding data collected Date of 1st egg; clutch size; number of chicks before leaving the nest; body mass, tarsus length, fat and muscle scores for parents and chicks, wing length and detailes of coloration of parents.  
Description of the protocols for breeding data collection See Kerimov et al.,2018 
Description of the protocols for taking individual level measurements See Kerimov et al.,2018 
Experimental manipulations Yes - in some years
Description of experimental manipulations Removal experiments in one of the plots (Sternberg et al., 2002. see http://ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_article.php?nr=165), cross-fostering eperiments, measurements of metabolic rates and immune responses (Bushuev et al., 2011 (Biol. Bul. Rev., DOI: 10.1134/S2079086411010026);  Kerimov et al., 2014 (Zool. zhurn., DOI: 10.7868/S0044513414100080), Kerimov et al., 2018 (Evolutionary ecology. DOI:). 
Predation events recorded Yes
How are second clutches recorded? Yes, in Great tit (repeate capture of adult birds, visual observations and video records of marked individuals).

 

Catching data
Individual data Yes
Type of individual data Age, immigration status, size (wing, weight, leg, beak); breast stripe in Great Tit; plumage characteristics (Drost colour type and other plumage features in Pied Flycatcher), personality scores (in both species, but in some years); physiological data [fat and muscule scores, moult score, metabolic rates (RMR, BMR), blood indexes (WBC; H/L, haemoparasites) in both species in some years; extra pair paternity in Pied Flycatcher during last decade. 
Feeding data  Yes, for some broods of Pied Flycatcher and Great Tit
Type of feeding data Yes, number of visits and number and size of prey items based on visual observations, automatic and video registrations for some broods of both species.
Other catching data No
Roosting checks Yes, only for Great tits in some winters in past.
Winter ringing Yes for Great Tit
Colour rings Common for both species in previos years; only selected individuals of Great Tit during last decade.
Tags Yes, transponders (Trovan) on Pied Flycatchers in few years. We widely use colour makeup for individual marking in both species.
Other No

 

Genetic data
Blood samples Yes. In some years for both species.
Feather samples Yes. In some years for both species.
Other samples NA
Samples analysed Some

 

Environmental data
Food availability data Yes, Evaluation of caterpillar abundance in canopies of typical tree species using Tinbergen, Dietz (1994) method; from 2002 untill now.
Temperature data Yes, Meteorological Observatjry of Moscow State University, 55°50' N, 37°37' E, altitude 180 m (http://momsu.ru).
Rainfall data Yes, Meteorological Observatjry of Moscow State University, 55°50' N, 37°37' E, altitude 180 m (http://momsu.ru).
Other environmental data NA