Acknowledgements and
funding
We thank Nature Seychelles for facilitating fieldwork on Cousin Island.
This study would not have been possible without the contribution of many
fieldworkers, lab technicians, students and database managers during the
whole study period. T.J.B. was funded by the UKRI Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council Norwich Research Park Biosciences
Doctoral Training Partnership (BB/M011216/1). The long-term Seychelles
warbler study was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council
(NERC) grants to D.S.R (NE/F02083X/1) and D.S.R and H.L.D
(NE/K005502/1), and NWO grants from the Dutch Science Council (NWO) to
J.K., with D.S.R. and H.L.D. (NWO-ALW 823.01.014, NER/I/S/2002/00712,
NE/I021748/1, 854.11.003 and 823.01.014).