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Implications of radio-tracking for the survival of Masked Lapwing chicks


Category: Corella
Author(s): Daniel Lees, Craig D. H. Sherman, Grainne S. Maguire, Peter Dann and Michael A. Weston

Monitoring survival of free-living, precocial avian young is difficult. Perhaps the most promising method available is a combination of radio-tracking and frequent investigator brood visits. The aim of this study was to determine if the process of radio-tracking negatively impacts chick survival by comparing survival of tagged chicks with that of their untagged siblings. We […]

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