David Norman (ornithologist)

David Norman
Born	1949
Nationality	British
Occupation	Chartered Physicist, academic
Known for	Ornithology
Website
davidnorman.org.uk

Professor David Norman (born 1949^[1]) is a British Chartered Physicist^[2] and ornithologist, he has lived in Cheshire since 1978.^[3]

Physics

Professor Norman is a former Director of Synchotron Radiation, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Laboratory.^[2] He was a visiting Professor in Surface Science at the University of Liverpool^[2]

Ornithology

Since 2005^[4] he has been an independent member of the United Kingdom's Rare Breeding Birds Panel^[5] and he is a member of the RSPB Council,^[5] and Chairman of the Merseyside Ringing Group. He is an honorary research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,^[5] spending up to a month each year at their Powdermill Nature Reserve.^[3]

He served on the council of English Nature from 1996-2002 (and in September 2000 became interim acting chairman for six months).^[2][3] He has been chairman of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust^[3] and a member of the Editorial Board for Ornithology's journal Ringing and Migration.^[2] He was the founder chairman of the Mersey Estuary Conservation Group^[2] and Research Committee of the Liverpool Bay Wader Study Group.^[2]

In 2002 he was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology's Bernard Tucker Medal "for his outstanding scientific contributions in surveying, nest-recording and ringing birds".^[6]

Bibliography

• Norman, David; Norman Arlott (1994). The Fieldfare. London :: Hamlyn,. pp. 127p.. ISBN 0600579611. 
• BTO Migration Atlas (texts on Common Tern, Wood Warbler & Chaffinch^[3]
• Birds in Cheshire and Wirral, Liverpool University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-84631-152-9
  • On behalf of the Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society

Papers

• Various, on waders on the Mersey Estuary, Fieldfares, Common Terns, Little Terns, Wood Warblers, Common Firecrests and Bramblings

References

1. ^ "COPAC entry for The Fieldfare". http://copac.ac.uk/wzgw?id=0811263bf24d7aea51132708cda16eed63446d&f=u&rsn=5&rn=1. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "English Nature announce acting Chairman". English Nature. 2000-09-28. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/news/story.asp?ID=200. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Current Panel Members". Rare Breeding Birds Panel. http://www.rbbp.org.uk/rbbp-panel.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-27. 
4. ^ Holling, Mark; the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (2007-06). "Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004". British Birds 100 (6): 321–367. ISSN 0007-0335. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} "RSPB Council". RSPB. http://www.rspb.org.uk/about/run/council.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-26. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ "Medallists". BTO. 2006-06-02. http://www.bto.org/aboutBTO/accounts/medallists.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-27. 

External links

• David Norman's website

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