Alan Dean (ornithologist)

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Alan R. Dean
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Website www.deanar.org.uk

Alan R. Dean is a British ornithologist [1] with a special interest in gulls and warblers. He lives in Solihull, West Midlands.

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He is a member of the West Midland Bird Club and was an assistant editor of its Annual Reports for 1975–1980. He was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1984 to 1992 and in 2007 published a comprehensive account of the committee's history and publications. He has published a number of identification papers in British Birds . [2] His papers and articles on Siberian chiffchaff have been of particular note. In 2010, the West Midland Bird Club conferred on him life membership, in recognition of his contribution to ornithology. [3]

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References

  1. Pemberton, John E. (John Edward) (1997). Who's who in ornithology (1st ed.). Buckingham: Buckingham Press. ISBN   0-9514965-8-1.
  2. See #Articles
  3. "AGM". West Midland Bird Club. 2010-11-01. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)