Integrated Analysis of Capture-Recapture-Resighting Data and Counts of Unmarked Birds at Stop-Over Sites

Journal article

The models presented in this paper are motivated by a stop-over study of semipalmated sandpipers, Calidris pusilla. Two sets of data were collected at the stop-over site: a capture-recapture-resighting data set and a vector of counts of unmarked birds. The two data sets are analyzed simultaneously by combining a new model for the capture-recapture-resighting data set with a binomial likelihood for the counts. The aim of the analysis is to estimate the total number of birds that used the site and the average duration of stop-over. The combined analysis is shown to be highly efficient, even when just 1 % of birds are recaptured, and is recommended for similar investigations. This article has supplementary material online. © 2013 International Biometric Society.

Authors: Matechou, E; Morgan, B; Pledger, S; Collazo, J; Lyons, J

• Journal: Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 120-135
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s13253-013-0127-0
• EISSN: 1537-2693
• ISSN: 1085-7117
• Language: English
• Keywords: Combined likelihoods; Mark-resight analysis; Mark-recapture-resight model; Integrated population modeling; Semipalmated sandpipers; Stop-over duration