Photo of a Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. Source: Wikimedia commons.
Fig. 2 from the article: Incubation behaviour does not differ between nests with untagged and tagged parents.
Fig. 3 from the article: Reproductive outcomes were similar between tagged and untagged groups during the 2023 breeding season.
New paper: do GPS tags affect small shorebirds? In Kentish plovers, solar-powered devices showed no detectable effects on behaviour, reproduction, or short-term survival.
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