A study examined the relationship between the percent of adult birds in a colony who return from the previous year and the number of new adults who join the colony. The data were taken from a graph in Saether, B-E., Engen, S., and Mattysen, E. 2002. Demographic characteristcs and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds. Science, 295, pp. 2070-2073 and are used in Moore's Basic Practice of Statistics. For each of 13 colonies of sparrowhawks, the variables are: percent return new adults