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FOUR crowned cranes (Balearica pavonina) recently appeared in an area of arable and marshy country in Cambridgeshire. This species, so far as we know, has not previously been described as occurring at large in Britain, although one specimen was shot in Ayrshire in 1871, and had “doubtless escaped from captivity”1.
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Witherby, H. F., et al., “The Handbook of British Birds”, 4, 455 (London, 1940).
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JONES, S., JONES, P. Crowned Cranes in Cambridgeshire. Nature 183, 560 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183560a0
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