Table 3.

Variance components (±SE) and repeatability (Confidence intervals) extracted from final models for foraging traits, boldness, sex and age (See Table 4). N patches = 197; N trips = 186; N birds = 159

	Random effect variance estimates			Repeatability
Response variable	Bird ID	Year	Residual	Bird ID R
PC1 (EE strategy)	0.16 ± 0.40	0.03 ± 0.19	0.19 ± 0.44	0.40 (0.27, 0.54); p < .001
Time in patch	0.30 ± 0.55	0.05 ± 0.22	0.42 ± 0.65	0.25 (0.15, 0.37); p < .001
Foraging effort	0.45 ± 0.67	0.00 ± 0.00	0.69 ± 0.83	0.21 (0.12, 0.30); p < .001
Size of patch	0.32 ± 0.56	0.06 ± 0.24	0.23 ± 0.48	0.71 (0.57 0.82); p < .001
Number of patches	0.05 ± 0.21	0.03 ± 0.16	0.14 ± 0.38	0.48 (0.31, 0.66); p < .001