Swift
Well-known member
The Birds of Lancashire and North Merseyside
Sponsor a species
The last full avifauna of the county was Clifford Oakes’ ‘Birds of Lancashire’, published over half a century ago in 1953.
Ken Spencer published ‘The Status and Distribution of Birds in Lancashire’ in 1973 to mark the reorganisation of local government, which resulted in the historic boundaries being radically altered. However, this was not the hoped for full re-write, as Ken himself acknowledged when he stated in the preface that he would have liked to produce “something more expansive”.
Now at last the eagerly awaited new ‘The Birds of Lancashire and North Merseyside’ is due for publication in March 2007. The book is the result of much hard work by a large number of individuals. To assist with raising the money required for publication, birders were invited to ‘Sponsor a species’ for only £10 per species. As of 4th October, just 55 species remain to be sponsored. They are:-
Mandarin, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Scaup, Long-tailed Duck, Quail, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Cory’s Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Little Shearwater, Shag, Glossy Ibis, Pacific Golden Plover, American Golden Plover, Stilt Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Arctic Skua, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Kittiwake, Gull-billed Tern, Guillemot, Razorbill, Little Auk, Woodpigeon, Turtle Dove, Alpine Swift, Little Swift, Tawny Pipit, Tree Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Rock Pipit, Thrush Nightingale, Bluethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Aquatic Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Crested Tit, Rose-coloured Starling, Lesser Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll, Common Redpoll, Common Rosefinch, Dark-eyed Junco.
It would be nice to think that ALL species will be sponsored.
Will you please help by sponsoring one or more of them? Perhaps one was a life tick which you first saw in the county, or maybe a bird you particularly like.
All sponsors will be acknowledged in the book.
email to rpyefinch at lineone.net to check availability.
The profits will go to the Future publications fund of the Lancashire and
Cheshire Fauna Society.
Sponsor a species
The last full avifauna of the county was Clifford Oakes’ ‘Birds of Lancashire’, published over half a century ago in 1953.
Ken Spencer published ‘The Status and Distribution of Birds in Lancashire’ in 1973 to mark the reorganisation of local government, which resulted in the historic boundaries being radically altered. However, this was not the hoped for full re-write, as Ken himself acknowledged when he stated in the preface that he would have liked to produce “something more expansive”.
Now at last the eagerly awaited new ‘The Birds of Lancashire and North Merseyside’ is due for publication in March 2007. The book is the result of much hard work by a large number of individuals. To assist with raising the money required for publication, birders were invited to ‘Sponsor a species’ for only £10 per species. As of 4th October, just 55 species remain to be sponsored. They are:-
Mandarin, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Scaup, Long-tailed Duck, Quail, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Cory’s Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Little Shearwater, Shag, Glossy Ibis, Pacific Golden Plover, American Golden Plover, Stilt Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Arctic Skua, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Kittiwake, Gull-billed Tern, Guillemot, Razorbill, Little Auk, Woodpigeon, Turtle Dove, Alpine Swift, Little Swift, Tawny Pipit, Tree Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Rock Pipit, Thrush Nightingale, Bluethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Aquatic Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Crested Tit, Rose-coloured Starling, Lesser Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll, Common Redpoll, Common Rosefinch, Dark-eyed Junco.
It would be nice to think that ALL species will be sponsored.
Will you please help by sponsoring one or more of them? Perhaps one was a life tick which you first saw in the county, or maybe a bird you particularly like.
All sponsors will be acknowledged in the book.
email to rpyefinch at lineone.net to check availability.
The profits will go to the Future publications fund of the Lancashire and
Cheshire Fauna Society.
