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Land
Poland
Soort
Blue tit
Great tit
Pipeline
Nee
Max. nr nestboxes
565
Lopende periode
2016–Present
ID data
Metal rings
Omgevingsdata
Food availability
Rainfall
Temperature
Individuele data
Morphological measures
Personality data
Physiological data
Habitat
Mixed
Urban
Genetische data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basale broeddata
Ja
Voederdata beschikbaar
Ja
Geen data beschikbaar Data aanvragen
General Information
Data owner Marta Szulkin
Contact  
Institution Wild Urban Evolution & Ecology Lab, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Conditions of use/Licence Contact with data owner requested to discuss conditions of use.
Data available via pipeline Under construction
Quality check of the original data A full document with quality checks, which are improved every year (starting a 5th breeding season in spring 2020). This includes checking ring sequences, missing rings, checks that no more birds fledge than there are eggs, checking traits for data points that are out of range etc.
Study site
Name Warsaw
ID WRS
Country Poland
Size (ha) Currently 9 sites with a total of 565 nestboxes, spread evenly c. 50 m
Major site changes Gradually increasing but do not plan any major expansion in the near future (3 sites in 2016, 8 sites in 2017, 9 sites in 2018-2020)
Latitude 52° 13' 47" N
Latitude 21° 00' 44" E
Number of nest boxes (min) 306
Number of nest boxes (max) 565
Vegetation Type A gradient of urbanisation - reference study site: mixed-coniferous forest characterised by a dominance of pine trees and oaks. All other sites (a suburban village, 2 residential areas, an urban forest reserve, 2 urban woodlands (one of which a cemetary), an urban park and a an office area reflect urban heterogeneity, where contrasted levels of impervious surface are present within each site).
Description of study site

For a detailed description of all study sites please see:

  • Corsini et al. 2017 (Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00082)
  • Corsini et al. 2019 (Behavioral Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz128)
  • Corsini et al. 2020 (Evolutionary Applications, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13081)
  • Szulkin, M., Garroway, C.J., Corsini M., Kotarba, A.Z. and Dominoni, D., How to quantify urbanisation when testing for urban evolution? In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South and Anne Charmantier: Oxford University Press (2020). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0002

 
Species
Species Great tit, blue tit
Start year 2016
End year NA
Continuous collection of data Yes
Gap years NA
Longest data collection 5
Parental ID's recorded Yes
List of basic breeding data collected Nest stage, nest height, clutch size, egg weight, nest-specific life history stages (chick data, adult data), n of chicks hatched, n of chicks fledged
Description of the protocols for breeding data collection Much descriptions of standard protocols are detailed here:
  • Corsini et al. 2017 (Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00082)
  • Corsini et al. 2019 (Behavioral Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz128)
  • Corsini et al. 2020 (Evolutionary Applications, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13081)
Description of the protocols for taking individual level measurements Some aspects of individual level measurements are discussed here:
  • Corsini et al. 2020 (Evolutionary Applications, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13081)
  •  Corsini et al. 2017 (Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00082)
More studies will be coming out soon with additional details.
Experimental manipulations Planned in the future (but not done so far)
Description of experimental manipulations Cross-fostering
Predation events recorded Yes, if we have evidence that it was a predation event
How are second clutches recorded? 2nd breeding events in a nestbox are recorded, but these are not necessarily 2nd clutches. 2nd clutches are identified using Van Balen's rule of thumb of 30 days from earliest LD on given site, but only in posthoc analyses (see Corsini et al. 2020 Evolutionary Applications). There is a possibility to identify true 2nd breeding events by checking whether particular adults are seen breeding a second time on the site, but we have not performed such analyses to date.
Catching data
Individual data Yes
Type of individual data Chicks: chick wing length, tarsus length & weight 15 days after hatching, (blood between 2016-2019), tail (for Trace metal analysis), feather data, faeces.
Adults: wing & tarsus length, kipp,  age, sex, ring ID, weight, aggression score. Also, hissing during incubation. Some trace metal and physiological data was measured on some years.
Feeding data Yes (using video cameras in 2018 and 2019)
Type of feeding data Video cameras recording nest visits and prey type
Other catching data Nest structure (2020), comparison of natural nest cavities and concrete nestboxes in 2018 and 2019 in terms of microclimate, reproduction etc.
Roosting checks No
Winter ringing No
Colour rings No (colour rings only fitted on birds breeding in natural cavities; the project lasted 2 years in an urban forest in 2018 and 2019)
Tags No
Other e.g. competition in flocks, predation…
Genetic data
Blood samples Yes
Feather samples Yes
Other samples Faeces (for microbiome analysis)  in some years, frass in some years
Samples analysed Yes
Environmental data
Food availability data Yes - in terms of frass, invesrtebrates, anthropogenic food on the ground, video-cameras
Temperature data Data owner has contact / access to some local weather data (temperature and precipitation), but no readily available link
Rainfall data Same as above
Other environmental data A wide array of environmental variables caracterising natural and urban habitat were used. For each nestbox, we now have data on: Human presence (see also Corsini et al. Behavioral Ecology 2019, Corsini et al. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 2017), Temperature, Sound pollution, distance to closest roads, distance to closest paths, distance to city centre, light pollution, tree cover, impervious surface area, NDVI. Methodology described in: Chapter 2 of Szulkin, M., Garroway, C.J., Corsini M., Kotarba, A.Z. and Dominoni, D., How to quantify urbanisation when testing for urban evolution? In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by
Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South and Anne Charmantier: Oxford University Press (2020). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836841.003.0002

Details

Land
Poland
Soort
Blue tit
Great tit
Pipeline
Nee
Max. nr nestboxes
565
Lopende periode
2016–Present
ID data
Metal rings
Omgevingsdata
Food availability
Rainfall
Temperature
Individuele data
Morphological measures
Personality data
Physiological data
Habitat
Mixed
Urban
Genetische data
Blood samples collected
Feather samples collected
Basale broeddata
Ja
Voederdata beschikbaar
Ja