But aren't most larger birds predators that are highly habitat/food supply constrained? That kind of population could be quite resilient to moderate increases

But aren't most larger birds predators that are highly habitat/food supply constrained? That kind of population could be quite resilient to moderate increases in mortality. (I might be assigning far more importance to predator-Peru cycles than is warranted though, I was reading about what I now found is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio... at a very young age and the concept stuck for life)