Model selection results for mark-recapture modelling of hand-reared African penguins released by SANCCOB in 2006 and 2007.

The model components were survival (φ), encounter (ρ) and recruitment (), the rate of transition from a non-breeder to a breeding individual. Survival probabilities were assumed to depend on age (a), encounter probabilities to be either constant (c) or to vary with time (t), and recruitment probabilities to depend on age (years after release), time, or be constant across time. K is the number of estimated parameters in each model, QAICc is Akaike's information criterion (AIC) adjusted for overdispersion and sample size, ΔQAICc is the difference in QAICc between each model and the best model and w denotes the Akaike weights (relative support given to each model).
Model selection results for mark-recapture modelling of hand-reared African penguins released by SANCCOB in 2006 and 2007.