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1 INTRODUCTION
Pages 10-11

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... The committee on the Sciendf~c Bases for He Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow -- consisting of experts in ornithology, conservation biology, population biology, and captive propagation -- was thereupon formed and charged to analyze the data and prepare a report detailing its findings, conclusions, and recommendations concerning the recovery of He 'Alala population. The committee and two special advisors examined He relevant scientific data, held a public meeting, and spoke to numerous persons, including state and federal biologists, staff at the cap~ve-breeding facility at Olinda on the island of Maui, and 10
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... It includes a discussion of possible direct and indirect factors that have contributed to the decline of the 'Alala, a demographic analysis of the current wild population based on existing data, and an estimate of times to extinction of the 'Alala and other insular populations of corvid species. The demographic analysis revealed new information about the structure of the population.
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