HC Deb 01 December 1999 vol 340 c195W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what estimate he has made of the population of ruddy duck in the United Kingdom. [99599]

Mr. Meacher

The latest Wetland Bird Survey 1997–98, estimates the United Kingdom ruddy duck population at 3,585.

Source:

June 1999—"The Wetland Bird Survey 1997–98, Wildfowl and Wader counts". Peter Cranswick, Mark Pollitt, Andy Musgrove, Becky Hughes—Published by BTO, WWT, RSPB, JNCC.

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