Accounting for observation biases associated with counts of young when estimating fecundity: case study on the arboreal-nesting red kite (Milvus milvus)

Counting the number of young in a brood from a distance is common practice, for example in tree-nesting birds. These counts can, however, suffer from over and undercounting, which can lead to biased estimates of fecundity (average number of nestlings per brood). Statistical model development to acco...

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Published in:	Peer Community Journal
Main Authors:	Sollmann, Rahel, Adenot, Nathalie, Spakovszky, Peter, Windt, Jendrik, Mattsson, Brady J.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Peer Community In 2024-07-01
Subjects:	false positives, false negatives, multinomial model, classification, calibration, population dynamics
Online Access:	https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.436/