Construct and interpret Leslie matrices and life-cycle diagrams

A wildlife survey follows a female woodland-bird population through equal-width age groups

The population is recorded once per model interval in the declared group order

Each group has width 1 year; one recurrence step advances one such interval

Females are counted; each fertility rate is the expected number of daughters per counted female in one model period

Write the state as a column in the order nestling, juvenile, subadult. In \(L\), rows are destination groups and columns are source groups