Statistics in Ornithology

The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology.- The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology.- Section A General: Colour, Feeding, Movement and Migration.- Winter Feeding Assemblies, Wing Lengths and Weights of British Dunncocks.- A Bivariate Discrete Model of Changing Colour in Blackbirds.- Migration Counts and Local Weather at British Bird Observatories — An Examination By Linear Discriminant Analysis.- Statistical Problems in the Study of Seed-Eating Birds.- Models to Describe Razorbill Movements.- Accounting for Visible Migration.- Section B Analysis of Census Data.- Multivariate Analysis of Atlas Data.- A Test for Seasonal Occurrence.- An Index of Population Change With Application to the Common Bird Census.- Area-Species Incidence Recording.- Analyses of Nest Spacings.- An Assessment of Species-Area Relationships Using Ornithological Data.- Apparent Systematic Effects on Species-Area Curves Under Isolation and Evolution.- Section C Survival.- Are Hunting Losses of Young Black Ducks (Anas Rubripes) Too High?.- The Estimation of Survival in Bird Populations By Recaptures or Sightings of Marked Individuals.- Maximum Likelihood Methods for Investigating Reporting Rates of Rings on Hunter-Shot Birds.- Examples of the Use of Glim to Analyse Capture-Recapture Studies.- Age-Dependent Mortality Rates of Some Common British Birds.- Estimation and Comparison of Functions of Daily Nest Survival Probabilities Using the Mayfield Method.- Prior Knowledge and Ornithology.- Inherent Difficulties in Estimating Age-Specific Bird Survival Rates from Ring Recoveries.- The Effect of Age on Survival in the Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis) in Nottinghamshire.- Estimation of Age-Specific Survival in Hen Harriers (Circus C. Cyaneus) in Orkney.- Approximate Unbiased Estimation inthe Multi-Sample Single Recapture Census.- Approximately Unbiased Variance Estimation for the Jolly-Seber Mark-Recapture Model : Population Size.- References.- Author Index.- Bird index (english names).- Bird Index (scientific names).