Do Migratory Birds Return to their Old Haunts?
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Migratory Birds Make
sions about site settlement on both breeding and nonbreeding grounds. Each year a fraction of surviving individuals return to sites occupied in previous years. The accumulation of capture histories, and the widespread distribution of capture–recapture software to analyze such data (Lebreton et al. 1992) have lead to a proliferation of estimates of apparent annual survival rates for migratory bi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1886
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/034053b0