e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:22 UK GEMINI 2.3 GB place names Recordings of the discovery of novel food patches in common woodland birds in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK 2021 2022-03-07 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf 10.5285/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf doi: Beck, K.B., Firth, J.A., McMahon, K., Croft, S., Cole, E.F., Sheldon, B. (2022). Recordings of the discovery of novel food patches in common woodland birds in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf This dataset contains information about the recordings of great tits, blue tits, marsh tits and nuthatches discovering novel food patches in relation to manipulated local population densities (see 1a4dcbb3-c4fb-4bd4-acb3-d03932de9323). Prior to and during the density manipulation experiment, novel feeders were placed at random locations and the discovery of these was recorded using a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag attached to each bird and the information recorded using a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) antenna within the feeder. The experiment took place in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK between January and March 2021, as part of a study on the effects of ecological factors on social structure and information transmission. Data collection was performed by Keith McMahon, Sam Croft and Kristina Beck. The work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (Grant NE/S010335/1), The ecology of behavioural contagion in natural systems. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf Sheldon, B. University of Oxford ben.sheldon@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-7828 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Beck, K.B. University of Oxford kristina.beck@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-0207 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Firth, J.A. University of Oxford joshua.firth@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7183-4115 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author McMahon, K. University of Oxford Keith.mcmahon@zoo.ox.ac.uk author Croft, S. University of Oxford samuel.crofts@zoo.ox.ac.uk author Cole, E.F. University of Oxford eleanor.cole@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-946X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Sheldon, B. University of Oxford ben.sheldon@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-7828 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Oxford ben.sheldon@zoo.ox.ac.uk owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication ornithology experiment GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour patch discovery otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Beck, K.B., Firth, J.A., McMahon, K., Croft, S., Cole, E.F., Sheldon, B. (2022). Recordings of the discovery of novel food patches in common woodland birds in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf textTable English utf8 biota 2020-04-01 2021-06-30 -1.347 -1.316 51.762 51.781 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e250ae89-2e1f-4664-9092-5a8593d50fdf.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Automated bird feeders were used to collect the described data. Each of the feeders had one access hole with a clear flap and an inbuilt Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) antenna within the perch. All birds equipped with a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag that landed on the perch were recorded, and the time and date of visits stored on a secure digital (SD) card. Feeders were visited every two to three days, to refill food, check feeder performance and collect data. For the final dataset, erroneous recordings (e.g. entries with a wrong date or tag number) were removed. Data are provided as comma separated value file for deposit into the EIDC.