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Mr. MacArthur
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent estimate has been made of the number of wild geese in Great Britain; and what was the number counted in Perthshire.
Mrs. Thatcher
The most recent estimate of the summer population of wild geese in Great Britain is about 10,000, augmented to a maximum of about 175,000 in winter.In the last three years the number of wild geese counted in Perthshire in November was:
| 1967 | 49,330 |
| 1968 | 55,810 |
| 1969 | 25,390 |