Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta bernicla bernicla in Britain 1960/61 – 1999/2000 Robin M Ward with contributions from Rob Cameron, Denice Coverdale, Conor Donnelly, Barwolt Ebbinge, Chris Gibson, Bob Howells, Roy King, Bob Lord, Anne de Potier, Peter Potts, David Price, Carol Reid, Andrew St Joseph and Derek Wood The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Glos GL2 7BT, UK Waterbird Review Series © The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust/Joint Nature Conservation Committee All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review (as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988), no part of this publication may be reproduced, sorted in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright holder. ISBN 0 900806 47 8 This publication should be cited as: Ward, RM. 2004. Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta bernicla bernicla in Britain 1960/61 – 1999/2000. Waterbird Review Series, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust/Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Slimbridge. Published by: The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Joint Nature Conservation Committee Slimbridge Monkstone House Gloucestershire City Road GL2 7BT Peterborough PE1 1JY T: 01453 891900 T: 01733 562626 F: 01453 890827 F: 01733 555948 E:
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