TR18

The Birds of Thorne Moors

A Guide to Literature Sources

Published August 2009. Reprinted March 2010. Pp. [1]-28; Photographic cover, plus 2 figures. Produced, like TR17, to higher standards than other volumes, being printed on 130 gsm silk paper, with covers on 300 gsm board, Saddle-stitched.

In recent years, a desktop review has been undertaken of all vertebrate classes on Thorne Moors. Already, two Technical Reports describing the cold-blooded vertebrates and mammals have been produced. Each includes a comprehensive bibliography. Now, a review of the birds is underway, with the present Technical Report being the first of two ornithological reports envisaged. This report provides a bibliography of the Thorne Moors avifauna, citing items dating from 1586 to 2009. A future Technical Report is planned to present an annotated checklist of the birds.

There have been several attempts at a bibliography of Thorne Moors ornithology. The first was the ‘References’ section of Thorne Moors: Birds and Man (Limbert, Mitchell and Rhodes 1986). The Supplement to this study (Limbert 1990) added 18 references to the 75 already garnered in print, virtually all the latter being of direct local relevance. The gathering of such references continued, and a list of 107 items appeared as ‘Appendix I: References to Thorne Moors ornithology 1829-1995’, in ‘A Working Bibliography of Doncaster Ornithology 1951-1995’ (Limbert 1997). At the turn of the century, THMCF Technical Report No. 2 provided a Thorne Moors bibliography comprising 147 main items (Limbert and Roworth 2000). The final expression of this endeavour is the current Technical Report, which amounts to 30 items in part 3.1 of the Bibliography, and 244 in part 3.2, only three of which (asterisked in part 3.1) are common to both.

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