Wytham Woods Tit Project

In a recent talk to the Society “Nest-boxes – the case against!”, Martin Kincaid mentioned the longest running bird survey conducted by Oxford University at Wytham Woods. Read on if you would like to learn more about the project:

The Wytham Tit Project is a long-term population study of two woodland bird species – great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) – based at Wytham Woods near Oxford, UK, and is run by the Edward Grey Institute in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Although the majority of the work focusses on great and blue tits, there are smaller populations of coal tits (Periparus ater) and marsh tits (Poecile palustris) which are of particular interest for their role in interspecific flocking and information spread. Sadly, as with much of the UK, the willow tit (Poecile montana) no longer breeds in Wytham.

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: Wytham Tits