Publications
by Chris Durdin
This page is to record written publications and similar by Chris Durdin, with links where they exist.
It is work in progress and certainly incomplete. It excludes (1) a large number of Honeyguide holiday reports and (2) Honeyguide brochures, recent copies of which are in this website's archive.
Books
With John Buxton, The Norfolk Cranes' Story published in hardback in 2011 and in paperback in 2019.
- Also obituary for John Buxton in British Birds journal, May 2014: this also appears in the paperback edition of The Norfolk Cranes' Story.
The biggest bloody herons. Cranes again in Wild & Wonderful Norfolk, a 'bookazine' published by Norfolk Wildlife Trust to mark its 90 year anniversary, 2016.
AA/Ordnance Survey Leisure Guide, East Anglia (1989) pp12-16: 'A Paradise for Birdwatchers'.
Ordnance Survey Nature Atlas of Great Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands (1995). Colour Library Books, Godalming. Site accounts for 'East Anglia and region'.
Radio Norfolk, The First Ten Years. BBC, 1990. (PDF of two page contribution).
RSPB policy documents
Suffolk's Changing Coast (2005) with Renny Henderson. News story here.
A Greener Future for the Broads (2008). News story on BirdGuides or The Guardian or Daily Telegraph.
NWT Thorpe Marshes
Nature Notes from NWT Thorpe Marshes: four articles a year in Harnser, magazine of the Broads Society, January 2014 to recently.
Thorpe Parish Life, 12 articles January-December 2017 (example for January 2017)
NWT blogs: blogs for Norfolk Wildlife Trust, mostly about NWT Thorpe Marshes, are listed in the right hand column of the Thorpe Marshes web page. Wildlife reports for Thorpe Marshes (2012 to the present) are also on this page.
Norfolk Bird Report
The Great Auk Wreck in Norfolk Bird and Mammal Report 1983, pp360-364.
Yarmouth’s Little Terns in Norfolk Bird and Mammal Report 1992 pp430-431.
Articles also written for Norfolk Bird Club bulletin e.g. on RSPB prosecution relating to release of chukar/red-legged partridge hybrids, but no trace of these online. The NBC no longer exists.
Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists Society (NNNS)
Natterjack 140, February 2018 pp1-2: Purple Viper's Bugloss in Thorpe St Andrew (also as a web page here).
Natterjack 142, August 2018 pp3-7: Willow Emerald Damselflies: new tree and shrub species with egg-laying scars.
Natterjack 148, February 2020 pp4-6: Willow Emerald Damselflies: more species with egg-laying scars. The two willow emerald articles are also as a web page here).
RSPB research/survey reports and allied papers
- Breeding redshanks of Essex saltmarshes c.1994 (also Essex Bird Report paper)
- Broads ESA breeding waders 1995
- Broads wintering waterfowl 1996/7
- Estuaries reports x 7, produced in connection with presentations to District/Borough Councils.
- Southend Flats Wader and Wildfowl Survey
- Breeding redshanks on The Wash report and paper [Norris, K., Cook, T., O'Dowd, B., & Durdin, C. 1997. The density of Redshank Tringa
totanus breeding on the salt-marshes of the Wash in relation to habitat and its grazing
management. J. Appl Ecol. 34: 999-1013.]
RSPB sabbatical reports
(1) wildlife tourism (1990)
(2) stone-curlews in northern Spain and south-west France (1995).
(3) cranes (c.2009)
Farming & wildlife pieces: various eg Article in Autumn 2000 Birds magazine on Ed Cross’s farm; NFU regional journal; Cambridgeshire Farms Estate newsletter; RSPB newsletter for farmers.