13 Ornithological statistics

Abstract A personalised view of ornithological statistics is presented and the subject area is reviewed and put into historical context. The review is not exhaustive, but covers as much material as is possible in just one chapter. A section on bird counts is followed by one on bird movements, within which a recent project involving bird observatories data is described in some detail. Finally there is coverage of analysis for ring recovery data, capture-recapture data, and radio-tracking information. The historical development of this last area is charted carefully, since such great advances have been made since the 1960s and 1970s, and because it has been by far the most actively developing area of ornithological statistics.

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