Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity

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 Jyväskylä Research Station, Konnevesi (62°37.7'N 026°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

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2017-10-20

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

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

Other citation details: Thorogood, R, Kokko, H, Mappes, J (2017). Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

University of Cambridge - Dr. Rose Thorogood

University of Cambridge - Thorogood, R

University of Zurich - Kokko, H

University of Jyväskylä - Mappes, J

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

University of Cambridge

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Parus major

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Konnevesi

Keywords

Animal behaviour
Evolutionary ecology
Wild bird
foraging
prey defence
evolution
aposematism
Great tit

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Other constraints: 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

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Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2013-10-17

End date: 2014-01-24

Code: WGS 84

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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.

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File identifier: db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3 XML

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Metadata Date: 2023-02-09T11:09:06

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