Skip to main content

Table 5 Results of mark-recapture simulation for 1000 individuals over 10 years under four scenarios of ring loss

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

Scenario

Survival

SE

Resighting

SE

1. Business as usual

0.899 (0.891–0.908)

0.004

0.692 (0.679–0.706)

0.007

2. Complete loss

0.877 (0.867–0.886)

0.005

0.693 (0.679–0.708)

0.007

3. Partial resightability 1

0.897 (0.889–0.905)

0.004

0.663 (0.649–0.677)

0.007

4. Partial resightability 2

0.888 (0.879–0.896)

0.004

0.692 (0.678–0.706)

0.007

  1. Annual survival probability was 0.90, resighting probability was 0.70 and annual probability of ring loss for living birds was 0.025. The numbers in brackets indicate the 95% confidence limits and SE is the standard error