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Table 2 Total number of breeding pairs per year and number and rate of returned logger and non-logger birds for each year

From: No “carry-over” effects of tracking devices on return rate and parameters determining reproductive success in once and repeatedly tagged common swifts (Apus apus), a long-distance migratory bird

Year (x)

Logger-birds

Non-logger birds

Total

N oof breeding pairs

No. of all birds tracked in year x

No. of all tracked birds returned in year (x + 1)

No. of birds tracked for the first time in year x

No. of first tracked birds returned in year (x + 1)

Return rate

No. of birds sampled for comparison

in year x

No. of same birds returned in year (x + 1)

Return rate

2012

44

10

8

10

8

0.8

10

3

0.3

2013

42

10

7

6

5

0.7

10

6

0.6

2014

48

10

6

6

4

0.6

10

4

0.4

2015

47

10

5

8

4

0.5

10

9

0.9

2016

53

10

7

5

5

0.7

10

7

0.7

2017

58

11

6

9

4

0.55

11

9

0.82

2018

59

19

8

19

8

0.42

19

17

0.89

2019

60

5

3

3

1

0.6

5

1

0.2

Sum

 

85

50

66

39

0.61

85

56

0.6