Statistics in Ornithology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXV

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2. The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology

   1. The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology

      • Philip M. North, Byron J. T. Morgan

      Pages 1-9

3. General: Colour, Feeding Movement and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Winter Feeding Assemblies, Wing Lengths and Weights of British Dunnocks

      • Robert A. Cheke

      Pages 13-24

   3. A Bivariate Discrete Model of Changing Colour in Blackbirds

      • Jocelyn R. Dale

      Pages 25-35

   4. Migration Counts and Local Weather at British Bird Observatories — An Examination By Linear Discriminant Analysis

      • Keith V. Darby

      Pages 37-64

   5. Statistical Problems in the Study of Seed-Eating Birds

      • P. W. Greig-Smith

      Pages 65-76

   6. Models to Describe Razorbill Movements

      • Philip M. North

      Pages 77-84

   7. Accounting for Visible Migration

      • Graham J. G. Upton

      Pages 85-89

4. Analysis of Census Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Multivariate Analysis of Atlas Data

      • S. T. Buckland, A. J. B. Anderson

      Pages 93-112

   3. A Test for Seasonal Occurence

      • Peter C. Lack

      Pages 113-120

   4. An Index of Population Change With Application to the Common Bird Census

      • M. D. Mountford

      Pages 121-132

   5. Area-Species Incidence Recording

      • R. A. Reese

      Pages 133-150

   6. Analyses of Nest Spacings

      • B. D. Ripley

      Pages 151-158

   7. An Assessment of Species-Area Relationships Using Ornithological Data

      • Michael B. Usher

      Pages 159-170

   8. Apparent Systematic Effects on Species-Area Curves under Isolation and Evolution

      • Mark Williamson

      Pages 171-178

5. Survival

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Are Hunting Losses of Young Black Ducks (Anas Rubripes) Too High?

      • H. Boyd, C. Hyslop

      Pages 181-195

   3. The Estimation of Survival in Bird Populations By Recaptures or Sightings of Marked Individuals

      • J. Clobert, J. D. Lebreton, M. Clobert-Gillet, H. Coquillart

      Pages 197-213

The genesis of this volume was in a one-day meeting arranged under the auspices of the Nathematical Ecology Group, jointly of the British Region of the Biometric Society and the British Ecological Society, and held in the Natural History Museum in London on the 4th May 1982. The object of the meeting was to bring together individuals from different dis­ ciplines but with a common interest in ornithology. In this volume we have tried to preserve the flavour of the meeting so that all but two of the papers read or pre­ sented as posters can be found here. The two papers that have not been included have since been published elsewhere: see Birkhead and Nettleship (1983) and Cav~ (1983). Further papers have been added to the volume from contributors who were unable to attend the London meeting, or were unable to present a paper there. All of the papers were refereed by ourselves. A volume which contains papers by both statisticians and non-statisticians is inevitably going to be variable with regard to the depth and range of statistical techniques used. Thus non-statisticians are likely to find some of the papers written by statisticians difficult at times, and conversely statisticians n2Y find that they would have treated some problems differently from non-statisticians. It is hoped, however, that this volun~ will increase awareness of the interests and problems (including solutions), in the general area of ornithology, and stimulate cross-fertilisation of ideas.

• Likelihood
• Linear discriminant analysis
• Statistics
• Variance
• best fit
• classification
• development

• Mathematical Institute, Cornwallis Building, The University Canterbury, England, UK

  Byron J. T. Morgan, Philip M. North

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