Ovenbird Mist-netting Dataset

Data from a multi-year mist-netting study of ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) at a site in Maryland, USA. The text files 'ovenCHpcapt.txt' and 'ovenCHptrap.txt' contain the ovenbird mist net data of Dawson & Efford (2009) re-analysed by Efford & Schofield (2022). The data are also included in the R package 'secr' (Efford 2022) where a more complete description may be found. The format follows that used by 'secr', described in secr-datainput.pdf. # Use this R code to re-construct the 'secr' capthist object library(secr) ovenCHp <- read.capthist('ovenCHpcapt.txt', 'ovenCHptrap.txt', detector = 'proximity') # ... and summarise with summary(ovenCHp, terse = TRUE) 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Occasions 9 10 10 10 10 Detections 41 49 57 33 35 Animals 20 22 26 19 16 Detectors 44 44 44 44 44 'Occasions' correspond to days. Detections were binary at the level of bird x net x day. Birds could be recorded in more than one net per day. References Dawson, D. K. & Efford, M. G. (2009) Bird population density estimated from acoustic signals. Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 1201-1209. Efford, M. G. (2022). secr: Spatially explicit capture-recapture models. R package version 4.5.5. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=secr. Efford, M. G. & Schofield, M. (2022) A review of movement models in open population capture–recapture. Methods in Ecology and Evolution In press.