Norfolk is a birder's paradise. During the writing of
''The Birds of Norfolk'' in the late 1990s, it was very
apparent that little detailed information was available
on the distribution and, in particular, abundance of
many of Norfolk's commoner birds. While ''The Norfolk
Bird Atlas'' by Geoffrey Kelly, published in 1986, had
provided data at a tetrad level on the breeding birds of
the county, the only wintering survey was that
undertaken for the 1981-84 atlas of Britain and Ireland,
and that had been based on 10-km squares. By the end of
1999, a team of local organisers and an enthusiastic
band of observers had started fieldwork on a new county
tetrad atlas, which would survey not only the breeding
and wintering birds of Norfolk, but also attempt to
assess the abundance of each species. By the end of the
summer of 2007, well over 300 observers had contributed,
and every tetrad in the county had been visited in both
summer and winter. The results of this undertaking are
presented in this book, which brings together the
distribution and abundance of all the species recorded
during the survey, as well as highlighting the changes
since previous atlases.There is a double page spread for
each bird, covering over 270 species found in Norfolk,
and shows summer, winter, and change maps. It is
superbly illustrated by local artists and
photographers. |
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