Vital Rates of
North American Landbirds

David F. DeSante, Danielle R. Kaschube, and James F. Saracco

The Institute for Bird Populations

INTRODUCTION   METHODS   MAPS Data   Demographic Parameters Estimated   Details of Analytical Methods   Capture-mark-recapture models   Effort-corrected generalized linear mixed models   Correcting capture data for annual variation in mist-netting effort   Estimation of capture indices and productivity   Post-breeding effects   Pairwise Correlations among Demographic Parameters and Summaries of Mean Parameter Estimates   LITERATURE CITED   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dedication This website is dedicated to the landbirds of North America, especially to those millions of individual birds that have flown into mist nets; been held securely in that strong soft webbing; been removed by the skilled and loving hands of that most unpredictable of all creatures, the human being; been stared at, marveled over, measured, weighed, and subjected to all manner of indignities – ranging from having their skulls examined to having their cloacae inspected; been fitted with a tiny shiny numbered bracelet on their foot; and been released back into the wild with a wish and a prayer that they and all of their kind would thrive in this rapidly changing, but still oh so beautiful, world;   and to the hundreds of MAPS operators and their thousands of volunteer bird banders who have so diligently and accurately collected the data that have made this website possible.

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