The former status of the Crane Grus grus in Britain

Ibis

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 482-500

  Boisseau, S ^a   Yalden, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING BIRD; COMMON CRANE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ENGLAND; UK;

GRUS GRUS;

EID: 0031835033     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04610.x     Document Type: Article

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