First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains first egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) from Monks Wood, Brampton Wood and Wennington Wood in Cambridgeshire, England, over a 22 year period. The dataset runs from the breeding season in 1993 to the end of the breeding season in 2014. The first egg dates are presented as the number of days from the start date which was set as the 1st April each year. Because the timing of breeding of great tits and blue tits is influenced in large part by ambient temperature and the phenology of their main prey, the data were collected as a measure of spring phenology. These data comprise part of a larger long-term study of the influence of habitat (extent, structure and composition) and landscape factors on abundance, distribution and breeding success of woodland birds in English lowland deciduous woodland. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-03-03
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa
- Other citation details
- Hinsley, S.A., Bellamy, P.E. (2015). First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Maintenance note
- Dataset is complete from 1993 to 2014.
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Superseded
- Use constraints
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- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hinsley, S.A., Bellamy, P.E. (2015). First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa
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- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1993-01-01
- End date
- 2014-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Supporting Information
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Field data collected by trained and experienced personnel. Egg dates have been checked against original paper records. Numbers of lines of data have been checked and data values have been checked for outliers. Individual egg date values have been checked against mean values per year for each site.
- File identifier
- 2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:21:08
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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https://eidc.ac.uk/
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