Colin Bradshaw

Colin Bradshaw is an English physician and ornithologist who was chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1997 to 2008. He was active in the BBRC for almost 20 years,[1] both as a committee member and as chairman. He is a medical doctor by profession and travels extensively for birding, and among his other hobbies are guitar, cricket, and photography.[2]

Life and career

As chairman of the BBRC he was responsible for running the organisation, and leading their adjudications of rare bird records in the United Kingdom.[3]

Some testimonies about him given on or after on his retirement in 2008:

  • "After 18 years involvement with the British Birds Rarities Committee, the last 11 as chairman, Colin Bradshaw will retire in 31 March 2008. His outstanding managerial skills and vision have steered the committee through times of great and often difficult change. These have included unprecedented developments in identification and taxonomy, the move to electronic submission and most recently the recruitment of a new secretary. He will now take a very well earned rest."
  • "A lifelong birder, Colin was Chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee for over a decade. Since retiring from that he has been able to expand the amount of photography he has done. He combines a busy medical career with his other interests of playing guitar, rugby & cricket, travel, cooking birding & photography. He doesn't have much time to sleep!"[2]
  • BirdWatch magazine[4]
  • "Many thanks to Colin Bradshaw for these two fine bird photos taken during a short trip to Islay a couple of weeks ago. Colin retired from the British Birds Rarities Committee in 2008 after a total of 19 years service, including 11 as chairman".[5]

He continued to be involved the BBRC's activities after retiring.[6]

Bibliography

Books
  • The Birds of Battlesteads - a photographic guide to the birds of the Battlesteads Hotel and the surrounding areas. These areas include the moors around Hadrian's Wall, the border forests and the Tyne Valley. 2011
  • Birds of Brier Island - a photographic guide to the birds of Brier Island, Nova Scotia. 2011

Articles

Committee activities
  • 2000 Association of European Rarities Committees[7]
  • 2000 British Ornithologist's Union Records Committee - 27th Report (October 2000)[8]
  • 1995 Association of European Rarities Committees[9]
  • The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC), responsible for maintaining the official list of birds recorded in Britain[10]

References
  1. Election Result, Published on 6 February 2001 ref
  2. The Birds of Battlesteads. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  3. British Birds Rarities Committee, BBRC appoints a new chairman Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, Published on 23 July 2007
  4. [The Record breaker http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/userfiles/file/Birdwatch/Main%20Index%20v1.13.pdf Archived 2014-05-26 at the Wayback Machine] 2003, Month 5, Number 131, Strapline Interview, Accredited to David Mairs, Page 40, Subject Colin Bradshaw, BBRC.
  5. Colin Bradshaw on Islay Thursday, 12 December 2013
  6. BBRC 2008 Annual Report mentions continuing work by CB. ref
  7. "British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee: 26th Report (October 1999)". Ibis. 142: 177–179. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2000.tb07703.x.
  8. "Surfbirds.com". www.surfbirds.com. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  9. http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Kecskemet1995.pdf
  10. "Yahoo! Groups". groups.yahoo.com. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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