A history of wildfowl counts by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Wildfowl

Volumn , Issue 47, 1996, Pages 216-229

  Cranswick, P A ^a   Kirby, J S ^a   Salmon, D G ^a   Atkinson Willes, G L ^b   Pollitt, M S ^a   Owen, M ^a  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Osborne House   (United Kingdom)

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