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| Name |
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| John Marchant |
| Position |
| Team Leader, Census Unit |
| Role |
| My job is mostly organising fieldwork, data collection and
reporting for some of the BTO’s long-running surveys. |
| Qualifications |
| MA (Hons) Applied Biology, University of Cambridge, 1972 |
| Research Interests/Responsibilities |
| Heronries Census; Waterways Bird Survey; Waterways
Breeding Bird Survey; Retrapping Adults for Survival estimation
(RAS); writing and editing reports |
| Other Information |
| I have personal interests in bird recording, wader
identification, and all kinds of BTO fieldwork. I am Archivist
for the British Birds Rarities Committee, and will be joint
editor of the forthcoming Norfolk Bird Atlas. Occasionally,
I birdwatch just for fun! |
| Selected Publications |
- Baillie, S.R., Marchant, J.H., Crick, H.Q.P., Noble, D.G.,
Balmer, D.E., Barimore, C., Coombes, R.H.,
Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven,
M.J., Robinson, R.A. & Thewlis, R.M. 2007. Breeding
Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status
2006. BTO Research Report No. 470. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)
- Marchant, J.H., S.N. Freeman, H.Q.P. Crick & L.P.
Beaven. 2004. The BTO Heronries Census of England and Wales
1928–2000: new indices and a comparison of analytical
methods. Ibis 146: 323–334.
- Wernham, C.V., M.P. Toms, J.H. Marchant, J.A. Clark, G.M.
Siriwardena & S.R. Baillie (eds). 2002. The Migration
Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland. T.
& A.D. Poyser, London.
- Rehfisch, M.M., Wernham, C.V. & Marchant, J.H. (eds)
1999. Population, distribution, movements and survival
of fish-eating birds in Great Britain. DETR, London.
360pp.
- Marchant, J.H. 1999. Large-scale bird population monitoring
in Europe: rationale, progress and prospects. Vogelwelt
120, Suppl.: 25-29.
- Marchant, J.H., & R.D. Gregory. 1999. Numbers of nesting
Rooks Corvus frugilegus in the United Kingdom in
1996. Bird Study 46: 258-273.
- Holmes, J., J. Marchant, N. Bucknell, D. Stroud &
D.T. Parkin. 1998. The British List: new categories and
their relevance to conservation. Brit. Birds 91:
2-11.
- Marchant, J.H., C. Forrest & J.J.D. Greenwood. 1998.
A review of large-scale generic population monitoring schemes
in Europe. Bird Census News 10: 42-79.
- Marchant, J.H. 1996. Recording and monitoring of escaped
and introduced birds in Britain and Ireland. Pp. 1-11 in:
J.S. Holmes & J.R. Simons (eds.), The introduction
and naturalisation of birds. The Stationery Office,
London.
- Hayman, P.J., J.H. Marchant & A.J. Prater. 1986. Shorebirds
- an identification guide to the waders of the world.
Croom Helm, London & Sydney.
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| Contact Details |
Email:
Telephone:
Fax:
Postal address: |
01842 750050
01842 750030
British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU,
UK. |
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