Identification

Title

Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity

Abstract

The data set describes foraging decisions by great tits (Parus major), held in temporary captivity. Data were collected from birds caught from forest at the University of JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤ Research Station, Konnevesi (62Â°37.7'N 026Â°17'E), Finland, and were collected during the winter of 2013-2014. Birds were presented with (1) two different coloured plastic cups, or (2) two different artificial prey (almond pieces inside a paper packet and printed with a black and white symbol). One symbol was made bitter-tasting by soaking the almond piece in chloroquine, and learning behaviour was recorded over three trials. Half of the birds in both experiments were presented videos of a demonstrator great tit, to provide social information about prey characteristics and unpalatability. Data were collected to test hypotheses about the evolutionary consequences of social information use by predators as part of a NERC-funded Independent Research Fellowship. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/download?fileIdentifier=db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: order

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Wikidata

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-10-29

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Wild bird

foraging

prey defence

evolution

aposematism

Great tit

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

18.584

East bounding longitude

32.416

North bounding latitude

65.608

South bounding latitude

58.655

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-10-17

End position

2014-01-24

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-10-20

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data on foraging decisions of wild great tits (Paris major), held in captivity temporarily, were collected between 17th October 2013 - 24th January 2014 in central Finland. Data were generated during two procedures, with 14 out of 56 birds used to generate both parts of the dataset. Half of the birds were presented with video playback before the foraging test to provide social information about food options.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

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

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Thorogood, R, Kokko, H, Mappes, J (2017). Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-13T14:31:56

Metadata language

eng