@article {Buner:March 2008:0909-6396:26,
	author = "Buner, Francis",
	author = "Schaub, Michael",
	title = "How do different releasing techniques affect the survival of reintroduced grey partridges Perdix perdix?",
	journal = "Wildlife Biology",
	volume = "14",
	year = "March 2008",
	abstract = "The quality of released individuals can have a significant impact on the success of reintroduction projects. We tested which of the following release techniques resulted in the highest survival of released grey partridges <I>Perdix perdix</I> in Switzerland : 1) translocation of wild adult birds, 2) release of captive parent-reared adults as family groups, and 3) fostering of captive parent-reared chicks to wild barren pairs. Wild hatched offspring (F1 birds) from our re-established breeding pairs served as the control group. We used a multi-state capture-recapture model to estimate monthly survival rates from the data based on monitoring of radio-tagged individuals and reobservation and recovery of ringed individuals. Survival tended to be highest in wild-hatched partridges of the founder population (mean &#177; SE; 0.90 &#177; 0.03), followed by that of fostered chicks (0.86 &#177; 0.03) and translocated adult wild birds (0.82 &#177; 0.06). While survival of these groups was not statistically different from each other, survival of captive-reared adults was significantly lower (0.70 &#177; 0.06). We discuss the implication of our results for further partridge reintroduction projects.",
	pages = "26-35(10)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nkv/wb/2008/00000014/00000001/art00003"
}