Bird ringing, essential to bird conservation, is an informational process as individual birds are studied. The most critical use of bird ringing results from recovering previously banded birds. Bird ...

The method of Seber (1971, Biometrika 58, 491-497) for estimating age-specific bird survival rates from ringing recoveries has computational properties which make it attractive to potential users.

The British Trust for Ornithology has accepted responsibility for the future conduct of the principal scheme in Great Britain for the study of migration and other aspects of bird-life by the ringing ...