Published In
Auk
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2011
Subjects
Eastern Kingbird -- Effect of blood sampling on, Veterinary hematology
Abstract
The experimentally supported and prevailing opinion is that blood sampling has few to no long-term effects on survival of birds when conducted properly, and blood sampling has become a vital addition to the toolbox of many ornithologists. However, many of the studies that concluded that blood sampling had negligible effects on birds used approaches that did not account for temporary emigration and probability of capture. To date, the only study to have done so found that blood sampling had a strong negative effect on survival. We conducted a mark–recapture analysis of 8 years of banding and bleeding data on Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus) to determine whether survival was negatively influenced by blood sampling. Our analyses adjusted for temporary emigration and probability of recapture and accounted for (1) transitions between the bled and the nonbled state and (2) a change in protocol roughly midway through the study that resulted in a change from single to often multiple (and larger) draws of blood per year from single individuals. We found that survival rates of nonbled (0.61) and bled (0.67) males were statistically indistinguishable and that bled females had a higher probability of survival than nonbled females (0.68 and 0.58, respectively). The change to larger and more frequent blood samples was also not associated with a change in survival. Our data show that when accepted protocols were followed, blood sampling had no detectable influence on the survival of adult Eastern Kingbirds. Whether this applies generally awaits analyses using similarly rigorous methods on other species.
DOI
10.1525/auk.2011.10289
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12639
Citation Details
Redmond, L. J., & Murphy, M. T. (2011). Multistate mark-recapture analysis reveals no effect of blood sampling on survival and recapture of Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus). The Auk, 128(3), 514-521.
Description
Published as Redmond, Lucas J., and Michael T. Murphy. "Multistate mark-recapture analysis reveals no effect of blood sampling on survival and recapture of Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus)." The Auk 128.3 (2011): 514-521. © [2011] by [the Regents of the University of California/Sponsoring Society or Association]. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by [the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of the Sponsoring Society] for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on [JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/r/ucal)] or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com.