About the Authors

Mark F. Hulme

mark.hulme@bto.org

Affiliation British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Juliet A. Vickery

Affiliation The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Rhys E. Green

Affiliations The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ben Phalan

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Dan E. Chamberlain

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologiá Animale e dell’Uomo, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Derek E. Pomeroy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Dianah Nalwanga

Affiliation NatureUganda, Kampala, Uganda

David Mushabe

Affiliation NatureUganda, Kampala, Uganda

Raymond Katebaka

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Simon Bolwig

Affiliation Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Philip W. Atkinson

Affiliation British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed major revisions and editorial input leading to final draft: REG RK DN DM BP JAV PWA DEP DEC. Conceived and designed the experiments: DN DM PWA DEP JAV DEC SB. Performed the experiments: DN DM RK DEC. Analyzed the data: MFH REG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: REG BP. Wrote the paper: MFH.