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CONFLICT OF INTEREST
This work was funded by an anonymous donation via the Southampton Row Trust Ltd., the Charities Aid Foundation American Donor Fund (CAF). A UK newspaper reported that this donation was funded by owners of land managed for sport shooting of Red Grouse. In accordance with the policies of the CAF, the name(s) of donor(s) were not disclosed to the universities or to the authors. The CAF, Newcastle University and Durham University all carried out due diligence investigations on the organization making the donation and each confirmed that the identity of the donor(s) has not been disclosed to the authors. The authors remain unaware of the specific identity of the funder(s) of this research. In accordance with the gift agreement, as stipulated by Newcastle University and Durham University, the results and conclusions presented in the article were not influenced by donors.