Svobodová, Milena
Čepička, Ivan
Zídková, Lenka
Kassahun, Aysheshm
Votýpka, Jan
Peške, Lubomír
Hrazdilová, Kristýna
Brzoňová, Jana
Voříšek, Petr
Weidinger, Karel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Charles University, Faculty of Science (PROGRES Q43, Cooperatio Biology)
Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000787)
Article History
Received: 12 September 2022
Accepted: 17 December 2022
First Online: 14 January 2023
Declarations
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: This study was carried out in accordance with Czech national laws. The protocol was approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Experiments were performed by licensed workers. Licensed ringers had permission to visit nests and to catch wild birds, including the sparrowhawk (a specially protected species: Act N. 114/1992). Four of the authors (MS, LP, PV, KW) were licensed ringers during the study period, and at least one of them took part in each field sampling. The license was issued by the Ringing Centre of the National Museum in Prague. MS and KW had a license to perform experiments on animals, issued by the Central Committee for Animal protection, at the time of sampling.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare they have no competing interests.