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"There’s No Place Like Home" Part 1 - Wytham Woods

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Professor Ben Sheldon describes one of the World’s longest-running ecological studies, into birds in their natural environments.
Starting in 1947, the study of the Great Tit explores basic data including numbers, life spans and productivity from over 1,200 nest boxes.

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Series
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Ben Sheldon
Chris Lintott
Keywords
culture
iinterview
Wytham Woods
bird
Tit
Great Tit
fledgling
nest
Reproduction
ecology
offspring
lifespan
productivity
study
forest
tree
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 20/11/2014
Duration: 00:10:18

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