David Norman (ornithologist)

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

Professor

David Norman
Born1949 (age 73–74)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Chartered Physicist, academic
Known forOrnithology
Websitedavidnorman.org.uk

Physics

Professor Norman is a former director of synchrotron radiation, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Laboratory.[1] He was a visiting professor in surface science at the University of Liverpool.[1]

Ornithology

Since 2005[3] he has been an independent member of the United Kingdom's Rare Breeding Birds Panel[4] and he is a member of the RSPB Council,[4] and chairman of the Merseyside Ringing Group. He is an honorary research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,[4] spending up to a month each year at their Powdermill Nature Reserve.[2]

He served on the council of English Nature from 1996 to 2002 (and in September 2000 became interim acting chairman for six months).[1][2] He has been chairman of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust[2] and a member of the Editorial Board for Ornithology's journal Ringing & Migration.[1] He was the founder chairman of the Mersey Estuary Conservation Group[1] and Research Committee of the Liverpool Bay Wader Study Group.[1]

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".[5]

Bibliography
  • Norman, David; Norman Arlott (1994). The Fieldfare. London: Hamlyn. pp. 127p. ISBN 0-600-57961-1.
  • BTO Migration Atlas (texts on common tern, wood warbler and common chaffinch)[2]
  • Birds in Cheshire and Wirral, Liverpool University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-84631-152-9
    • On behalf of the Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society
  • Norman, David (July 2005). Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 192p. ISBN 9780192804198.

Papers

References
  1. "English Nature announce acting Chairman". English Nature. 28 September 2000. Archived from the original on 22 July 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  2. "Current Panel Members". Rare Breeding Birds Panel. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
  3. Holling, Mark; The Rare Breeding Birds Panel (June 2007). "Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004" (PDF). British Birds. 100 (6): 321–367. ISSN 0007-0335.
  4. "RSPB Council". RSPB. Archived from the original on 3 March 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  5. "Medallists". BTO. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
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