The 75-year woodland study has measured a marked seasonal shift in the timing of egg-laying in spring.
But the longest-running of the Wytham Woods experiments is the great tit project.
She and her colleagues have special permission to access the nest boxes, to mark each nestling and to ring every bird before it fledges.The bluebells at Wytham Woods are a sign that the woodland has been undisturbed for a long periodthat compared Wytham's great tits with a population in the Netherlands revealed that UK great tits had evolved longer beaks, which appear to allow them to use bird feeders more efficiently.
Our changing climate has put a renewed focus on the evidence this project has provided about how the natural world is responding - allowing scientists to put all of the aspects of how a population of wild birds works in the context of climate change.
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