On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the BirdNest data set which pertains to BirdNest. The BirdNest data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the BirdNest data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("BirdNest"). This will load the data into a variable called BirdNest. If R says the BirdNest data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the BirdNest R data set. The size of this file is about 7,010 bytes.

BirdNest

Description

Data on bird nests

Format

A dataset with 84 observations on the following 12 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Species	Latin species name
Common	Common species name
Page	Page in a bird manual describing the species
Length	Mean body length for the species (in cm)
Nesttype	Type of nest
Location	Location of nest
No.eggs	Number of eggs
Color	a numeric vector
Incubate	Mean length of time (in days) the species incubates eggs in the nest
Nestling	Mean length of time (in days) the species cares for babies in the nest until fledged
Totcare	Total care time = Incubate+Nestling
Closed	1=closed nest (pendant, spherical, cavity, crevice, burrow), 0=open nest (saucer, cup)

Details

Amy R. Moore, as a student at Grinnell College in 1999, wanted to study the relationship between species characteristics and the type of nest a bird builds, using data collected from available sources. For the study, she collected data by species for 83 separate species of North American passerines.

Source

Project by Amy Moore at Grinnell College

References

The Birders Handbook, by Ehrlich, et al. (1988)

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.