Behaviour-specific habitat selection patterns of breeding barn owls

Table 3 Difference between the three types of commuting – leaving (L) the nestbox, returning (R) to it and within (W) the habitat – in the distance covered, deviance from the straightest path and flight speed. Results from linear-mixed models including 12,503 tracks from 134 barn owls (owl identity set as random factor). The distance covered and the deviance from the straightest path were log-transformed

Parameter	Estimate ± SE	df	t-value	p
Distance covered
L - W	−0.104 ± 0.017	12,470	−6.20	< 0.001
L - R	−0.381 ± 0.022	12,412	17.30	< 0.001
W - R	−0.485 ± 0.0174	12,461	27.93	< 0.001
Deviance from the straightest path
L - W	−0.199 ± 0.039	12,490	−5.02	< 0.001
L - R	−0.114 ± 0.052	12,439	−2.18	0.078
W - R	−0.086 ± 0.041	12,484	2.09	0.101
Speed
L - W	−0.224 ± 0.028	12,468	−7.83	< 0.001
L - R	−0.510 ± 0.037	12,411	13.62	< 0.001
W - R	−0.733 ± 0.029	12,454	24.83	< 0.001

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