Northumbrian Naturalist 2002 – 2007

Summary

This collection contains 3 volumes:

• Volume 63 (2002 – 2003) (pp. 1 – 166)
• Volume 64 (2003 – 2005) (pp. 1 – 214)
• Volume 65 (2004 – 2007) (pp. 1 – 254)

VOLUME 63 (2002 – 2003)

• PART 1: Annual Report 2002 (pp. 1 – 36)
• PART 2: Birds on the Fame Islands in 2002, compiled by R Harvey, edited by M A Patterson, with Ringing Report by C REDFERN (pp. 37 – 87)
• PART 3: The Exotic Artefacts from George Allan’s Museum, and other 18th-Century Ethnographic Collections surviving in The Hancock Museum by L. Jessop (pp. 89 – 165)

VOLUME 64 (2003 – 2005)

• PART 1: Annual Report 2003 (pp. 5 – 42)
• PART 2: Birds on the Fame Islands in 2003, compiled by D. Steel, edited by M. A. Patterson, with Ringing Report by C. Redfern and Cetacean Report by J. Thompson (pp. 43 – 106)
• PART 3 (pp. 111 – 214)
  • The prey of Peregrines Falco peregrinus at breeding territories in Northumberland by A. Dixon (pp. 111 – 120)
  • Children’s knowledge of birds: how can it be improved and can it be used to conserve wildlife? by S. P. Dixon, A. C. Birchenough, S. M. Evans and M. P. Quigley (pp. 121 – 134)
  • Leeches (Hirudinea) in County Durham (VC66) by J L Durkin (pp. 135 – 139)
  • The entomological history of Prestwick Carr by M D Eyre and M L Luff (pp. 141 – 152)
  • Coleoptera (beetle) species and site quality of coastal and post-industrial sites in North-East England by M D Eyre, M L Luff and J C Woodward (pp. 153 – 160)
  • Robert Benson Bowman – an early Newcastle botanist by Leslie Anne Hendra (pp. 161 – 168)
  • Taillessness (Anury) in a Chillingham wild white calf by B. Ingham and A. Widdows (pp. 169 – 171)
  • The Northumberland County Otter Survey 2002-2003 by K O’Hara (pp. 173 – 184)
  • The status of the Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris) in the Borough of North Tyneside: a survey for presence and absence, summer 2002 by K O’Hara (pp. 185 – 194)
  • Some Northumberland barklice (Insecta: Psocoptera) observations by B Saville (pp. 195 – 198)
  • Fluorite-bearing marble from Barrasford Quarry, Northumberland by B Young, E R Phillips and B Smith (pp. 199 – 206)
  • A large glacial erratic boulder of Gypsum from the Durham coast by B Young (pp. 207 – 209)
  • New records of Supergene minerals from the Northern Pennine Orefield by B Young, E. K. Hyslop, T. F. Bridges and J Cooper (pp. 211 – 213)
  • ERRATA: Specimens of bird species now threatened, or made extinct in recent times, in the collections of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne by L Jessop and R H Stobbart (p. 214) 

VOLUME 65 (2004 – 2007)

• PART 1: Annual Report 2004 (pp. 3 – 49)
• PART 2: Birds on the Fame Islands in 2004, compiled by D Steel, edited by M A Patterson, with Ringing Report by C Redfern and Cetacean Report by D Parnaby (pp. 51 – 128)
• PART 3:
  • Sonnet on Thomas Bewick, anonymous (p. 132)
  • Thomas Bewick and The Natural History Society: a preface by D. Gardner-Medwin (pp. 133 – 134)
  • The Many Faces of Bewick: an illustrated catalogue of the portraiture of Thomas Bewick, his family and apprentices by June Holmes (pp. 135 – 224)
  • The Bicentenary of Thomas Bewick’s History of British Birds by D. Gardner-Medwin (pp. 225 – 254)

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