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...e same day are completely non-independent the mean was found for each brood for each day. Variables that were recorded were the behaviours during that time and the habitats used. There were seven broods. Three at one site and four at the other site. Only one site had a brood that consistently used mudflats rather than oceanfront habitats. As none of the data within a brood is truly independent, along with the very small number of broods, it became impossible to use conventional statistics to test the hypotheses and so it was suggested that mixed-effects models would be the best option as it would no...