Table 3.

Amplification failure, allelic dropout, and false allele occurrence (%)

Type of sample	Amplification failure	Allelic dropout across loci	Allelic dropout across samples	False alleles across loci	False alleles across samples
Molted feathers	14	21.9	25.1	0.8	0.7
Fecal swabs_3	28	20.5	16.2	1.3	1.9
Fecal swabs_2	6	16.7	12.0	0.8	0.3

Fecal swabs_3: reflects the genotyping error rates of all the fecal swab samples analyzed; Fecal swabs_2: reflects only fecal swab samples from the two best‐performing locations.