Table 3. Model selection tables examining the effect of age and breeding experience on characteristics of wandering albatross foraging trips, breeding birds tracked between 1991 and 2012.

	∆AIC compared to best model
	Trip duration	Max dist from col	Bearing	Inflection latitude	Inflection longitude
Sample size	207	207	207	207	207
Age * Sex + Year + Stage	0.51	3.12	2.01	1.51	4.62
Age * Sex + Year	45.64	18.74	10.26	17.53	32.19
Age * Sex + Stage	14.40	2.72	15.57	3.67	0.47
Age * Sex	100.29	48.84	31.51	41.13	60.33
Age + Sex + Year + Stage	0.99	2.24	2.20	0.00	5.07
Age + Sex + Stage	12.48	1.86	16.60	1.94	0.84
Age + Sex + Year	44.72	17.73	11.22	16.81	32.03
Age + Stage + Year	5.42	5.15	0.38	12.60	3.64
Sex + Stage + Year	0.00	0.32	1.75	0.72	4.63
Year + Stage	4.58	3.28	0.00	13.50	3.14
Sex + Stage	13.72	0.00	15.39	4.27	1.00
Sex + Year	43.02	15.73	10.24	15.54	30.62
Age + Stage	14.84	3.97	14.64	11.30	0.00
Age + Year	49.51	21.17	9.26	26.79	31.28
Age + Sex	97.15	47.47	30.62	39.14	58.75
Age	101.12	50.73	28.84	47.49	58.20
Sex	101.04	46.69	29.39	38.16	66.38
Year	47.91	19.19	8.30	25.70	29.80
Stage	16.66	2.19	13.41	14.28	0.02
Null	106.02	50.97	27.58	46.65	66.52

The best model in each case is highlighted in italics (where ∆AIC = 0). The most parsimonious model in each case is highlighted in bold (where ∆AIC<2 compared to the best model).