Abstract Early documentary evidence provides good reason for believing that the Great Bustard Otis tarda did not colonise Britain until around the mid fifteenth century. This was perhaps part of a general increase in Europe and rooted in major ecological changes brought about by climatic deterioration and severe epidemic disease in the human population from the early fourteenth century. From the s...
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