a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf 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 2025-11-13T16:18:47 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Great tit behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, UK, 2021-2023 2024-08-05 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf 10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf doi: Taylor, C., Bell, D., Burdett, S., Codyre, A., Cooley, K., Gandhi, S.R., Ogilvie, E., Pond, A.L., Davidson, G.L., Rowland, H.M., Gilbert, F., Reader, R. (2024). Great tit behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, UK, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf This dataset relates to two closely related experiments conducted using similar methodologies: one - Discrimination Ability experiment - from December 2021 to May 2022 and another - Multiple Models experiment - from October 2022 to April 2023. Data describe the responses of wild birds (mainly Great tits Parus major) towards feeding stations where insect-like stimuli concealed a possible food reward. Data include: Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag records of birds visiting the feeders (note that not all birds were tagged); demographic information about the tagged birds; timings and set-up of the feeders used at each session; and which stimuli from each session were “attacked” (and in what order). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf Taylor, C. University of Nottingham c.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-7104 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 Bell, D. University of Nottingham evydb11@nottingham.ac.uk author Burdett, S. University of Nottingham simonburdett27@gmail.com author Codyre, A. University of Nottingham aoifecodyre@gmail.com author Cooley, K. University of Nottingham ahykc8@nottingham.ac.uk author Gandhi, S.R. University of Nottingham sam@thejollygeo.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-9043 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 Ogilvie, E. University of Nottingham Elizabeth.ogilvie2@gmail.com author Pond, A.L. University of Nottingham xelalei9@gmail.com author Davidson, G.L. University of Cambridge gabrielle.davidson@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5663-2662 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 Rowland, H.M. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology h.m.rowland@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1040-555X 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 Gilbert, F. University of Nottingham plzfg@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-4103 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 Reader, R. University of Nottingham plztr@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7586-8814 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 Taylor, C. University of Nottingham c.taylor@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-7104 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Nottingham EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Parus major Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation behaviour insect hymenopteran GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour Batesian mimicry predation learning visual discrimination hoverfly Syrphidae great tit wasp 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: Taylor, C., Bell, D., Burdett, S., Codyre, A., Cooley, K., Gandhi, S.R., Ogilvie, E., Pond, A.L., Davidson, G.L., Rowland, H.M., Gilbert, F., Reader, R. (2024). Great tit behavioural responses to 3D-printed insect replicas, featuring combinations of traits from wasps and flies, in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, UK, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf textTable English utf8 biota 2021-12-01 2023-04-30 0.048 0.052 52.215 52.219 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a1c9b0cc-5585-49c5-a38f-fe05240edccf.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 Feeding stations were set up in Madingley Wood, Cambridge, consisting of an array of dishes covered by lids bearing 3D printed insect-like stimuli. Wild birds (mainly Great tits Parus major) could visit the feeding stations and open lids to reveal a possible mealworm within. In the Discrimination Ability experiment, birds acted as model predators and were trained to associate a fly stimulus with a reward and common wasp stimulus with no reward. They were then presented with a range of different novel mimetic stimuli with varying levels of similarity to the wasp stimulus. In the Multiple Models experiment, we extended the scenario by adding a second type of unrewarding wasp stimulus (with a second treatment that only included a single wasp type). Motion-sensitive cameras positioned above the feeding stations recorded bird behaviour. PIT-tagged birds were recorded by antennae positioned at the entrance to each feeding station, connected to a data logger. A researcher visited the site periodically (typically every 1-2 days) to observe and record which lids had been removed and to download video and logger data, before resetting for a new session. From a defined pool, stimuli were assigned to dishes in a random configuration for a given feeder and session. This configuration was generated in R (v 4.3.2) and stored for later cross-referencing against the dish-opening data. Videos were reviewed at a later date to observe the order in which dishes were opened within a single session (and, for the multiple models experiment, the exact timing of each event). Where possible, video footage of birds entering the feeder was cross-referenced against logged PIT-tag data to determine which individual bird was responsible for opening a given dish. However, there are many gaps in this cross-referencing where birds failed to trigger the logger, were not videoed entering the feeder, or when it was not possible to distinguish two closely-timed logger events. Logged PIT tags were cross-referenced against a database maintained by the Madingley Ringing Group to find details of species, sex and original ringing date. Data have been cleaned (for example, removal of invalid or unused data points) and formatted using custom scripts in R v4.3.2.