Quantifying Avian Predation on Fish Populations: Integrating Predator‐Specific Deposition Probabilities in Tag Recovery Studies

Accurate assessment of specific mortality factors is vital to prioritize recovery actions for threatened and endangered species. For decades, tag recovery methods have been used to estimate fish mortality due to avian predation. Predation probabilities derived from fish tag recoveries on piscivorous waterbird colonies typically reflect minimum estimates of predation due to an unknown and unaccounted‐for fraction of tags that are consumed but not...