Table 5 Mean number of sampling occasions and mean number of years in which individually-marked Semipalmated Sandpipers were subsequently re-encountered at Paracas, Perú, both by year birds were initially marked

2014

2.17

2.62

1–15

1.14

1.23

1–5

994

2015

1.49

2.04

1–10

0.82

0.98

1–4

445

2016

1.04

1.61

1–8

0.54

0.83

1–3

210

2017

1.24

1.62

1–6

0.40

0.88

1–2

149

2018

0

0

0

0

–

–

165

overall

1.64

2.31

15

0.85

1.09

1–5

1963