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Details

Land
Sweden
Soort
Blue tit
Great tit
Pipeline
Nee
Max. nr nestboxes
2200
Lopende periode
2002–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Metal rings
Omgevingsdata
Food availability
Rainfall
Temperature
Individuele data
Morphological measures
Physiological data
Habitat
Deciduous
Genetische data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basale broeddata
Ja
Voederdata beschikbaar
Ja
Geen data beschikbaar
Geen data beschikbaar
General Information
Data owner Szymon Drobniak for blue tits, Blandine Doligez for great tits
Contact szymek.drobniak@gmail.com
Institution Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of New South Wales (Australia), Department of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology - CNRS, University of Lyon 1
Conditions of use/Licence

BLUE TIT: The dataset is free to explore. We do however ask potential users to contact us if they want to integrate the data to an existing project, publish any derivative analyses based on the data or in any other way use it to produce published or openly available outputs.
GREAT TIT: Upon agreement with the data owner.

Data available via pipeline No
Quality check of the original data

BLUE TIT: At current stage the database is undergoing significant revision and consolidation, including quality checks. However, as always, errors may persist. We do ask all users of this set to communicate all detected errors or inconsistencies to us.
GREAT TIT: check of ring numbers and morphological measurements (eliminating impossible values)

Study site
Name Gotland
ID GOT
Country Sweden
Size (ha)

BLUE TIT: 240 ha (total approx. area of all study plots)
GREAT TIT: 9 15-20 patches between approx. 2 and 50 ha each

Major site changes Yes
Latitude 57° 02' N
Latitude 18° 17' E
Number of nest boxes (min) BLUE TIT: 1000
GREAT TIT: 1200
Number of nest boxes (max) BLUE TIT: 2700
GREAT TIT: 2150
Vegetation Type Deciduous forest, some plots have pine and spruce, dense hazel undergrowth. Trees mostly oaks and ashes. Several plots are open hay meadows with sparse oak growth.
Description of study site GREAT TIT: Approx. 15 to 20 (depending on years) discrete patches surrounded by fields or pastures, located on an isthmus - see suppl. mat. in Doligez et al. 2009 Proc. R. Soc. B and Morinay et al. 2018 Front. Ecol. Evol.
Species
Species Blue tit, great tit
Start year

BLUE TIT: 2002
GREAT TIT: 1997

End year BLUE TIT: NA
GREAT TIT: 2016
Continuous collection of data BLUE TIT: Yes
GREAT TIT: No
Gap years GREAT TIT: 2000-2003
Longest data collection

BLUE TIT: 18
GREAT TIT: 13

Parental ID's recorded Yes
List of basic breeding data collected phenology, morphology of adults and juveniles
Description of the protocols for breeding data collection BLUE TIT: Arct et al. 2013; Drobniak et al. 2010
GREAT TIT: Cauchard et al. 2013 Animal Behaviour
Description of the protocols for taking individual level measurements  
Experimental manipulations Yes 
Description of experimental manipulations BLUE TIT: Marked in the database
GREAT TIT: Cauchard et al. 2017 Front. Ecol. Evol. + unpublished cross-fostering and brood size manipulations (2005 to 2009), egg sampling
Predation events recorded Yes
How are second clutches recorded? BLUE TIT: no second clutches, only replacement clutches (marked in the database)
GREAT TIT: Second / late clutches monitored until given date (beginning of July)
Catching data
Individual data Yes
Type of individual data Age, immigration status, tarsus, head length, bill length, head width, weight, sex, plumage samples, specific physiological data in selected years beased on experiments.
GREAT TIT: also behavioural tests (cognition), body feathers
Feeding data BLUE TIT: no
GREAT TIT: yes
Type of feeding data GREAT TIT: Nest visits (+ prey items in one year)
Other catching data BLUE TIT: Depending on years: nest temperatures, various physiological measurements, immune responses of adults and chicks
Roosting checks No
Winter ringing No
Colour rings BLUE TIT: some individuals
Tags No
Other No
Genetic data
Blood samples Yes
Feather samples Yes
Other samples BLUE TIT: faeces in some years, plasma in some years
Samples analysed Yes (not all individuals, some analyses in progress)
Environmental data
Food availability data BLUE TIT: Yes (for some years), some years with budding date approximations
Temperature data Yes
Rainfall data Yes
Other environmental data weather data, satellite productivity data, detailed habitat composition survey in some years for selected plots

Details

Land
Sweden
Soort
Blue tit
Great tit
Pipeline
Nee
Max. nr nestboxes
2200
Lopende periode
2002–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Metal rings
Omgevingsdata
Food availability
Rainfall
Temperature
Individuele data
Morphological measures
Physiological data
Habitat
Deciduous
Genetische data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basale broeddata
Ja
Voederdata beschikbaar
Ja