JUVENILE AND ADULT SURVIVAL OF SWAINSON’S THRUSH (CATHARUS USTULATUS) IN COASTAL CALIFORNIA: ANNUAL ESTIMATES USING CAPTURE-RECAPTURE ANALYSES

Swainsons Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) Science Article 1

abstract

We estimated annual rates of survival for juvenile and adult Swainson’s Thrushes (Catharus ustulatus) using capture-recapture analyses from 22 years of mist-netting data in coastal California (n = 2,651 individual captures). Our apparent survival estimate was 56% for adults and 25% for juveniles. We are the first to estimate an annual juvenile survival rate for a Neotropical migrant using capture-recapture probability estimates. Like most estimates of annual survival, we could not distinguish between dispersal away from our study area (which is likely high for juveniles) and mortality.

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