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Table 2 Site specific numbers of deployed and retrieved geolocators as well as the number of obtained blood samples and blood smears during the study years from 2014 to 2016. Sites were breeding colonies at coastal and inland Germany (DE), and inland Hungary (HU) and a migration passage site at a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea (GR)

From: Spatially different annual cycles but similar haemosporidian infections in distant populations of collared sand martins

  Geolocator (deployed/retrieved) Blood samples
Site 2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016
DE-coast 25 / - 25 / 0 - / 0 54 50 49
DE-inland 25 / - 25 / 0 - / 2 50 54 52
HU- inland 25 / - 25 / 0 - / 2 51 49a 30
GR     55 23 52
  1. ablood smears only