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Table 3 Future observations of individuals with lost rings, including the number of individuals reported with a worn or lost ring, the number of individuals that were never resighted, and the results of the analyses for variables of beta (proportion of birds with worn/lost rings later resighted by other observers), epsilon (proportion of birds that had repeat reports of a worn ring) and gamma (proportion of future resightings reported with a worn ring)

From: Colour-ring wear and loss effects in citizen science mark-resighting studies

Ring state

Reported

Not resighted

Beta

Epsilon

Gamma

Lost

373

60

0.47

0.47

0.31

Worn

359

62

0.70

0.30

0.10

  1. Detailed descriptions for beta, epsilon and gamma are provided in Table 2