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Demographic Consequences of Poison-Related Mortality in a Threatened Bird of Prey 1,2,3 4 ˜ 4 5 1 Simone Tenan *, Jaume Adrover , Antoni Munoz Navarro , Fabrizio Sergio , Giacomo Tavecchia ´ 1 Population Ecology Group, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientıficas–University of the Balearic Islands), Esporles, ` Mallorca, Spain, 2 Sezione Zoologia dei Vertebrati, Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy, 3 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ˜ 4 Grup d’Ornitologia Balear i defensa de la naturalesa, Palma, Mallora, Spain, 5 Department of Conservation Biology, Estacion Biologica de Donana - CSIC, Seville, Spain Abstract Evidence for decline or threat of wild populations typically comes from multiple sources and methods that allow optimal integration of the available information, representing a major advance in planning management actions. We used integrated population modelling and perturbation analyses to assess the demographic consequences of the illegal use of poison for an insular population of Red Kites, Milvus milvus. We first pooled into a single statistical framework the annual census of breeding pairs, the available individual-based data, the average productivity and t