Alan Dean

Alan R. Dean is a British ornithologist^[1] with a special interest in gulls and warblers. He lives in Solihull, West Midlands.

He is a member of the West Midland Bird Club and was an assistant editor of its Annual Reports for 1975-1980. He was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee from 1984–1992 and in 2007 published a comprehensive account of the committee's history and publications. He has published a number of identification papers in British Birds.^[2] Among the original observers, he also prepared the account of the first White-tailed Plover in Britain, at Little Packington, Warwickshire, in July 1975.

In 2010, the West Midland Bird Club conferred on him life membership, in recognition of his contribution to ornithology.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• The Birds of the West Midlands By Graham R. Harrison, Alan R. Dean, Alan J. Richards and David Smallshire, West Midland Bird Club ISBN 0-9507881-0-4 (1982)

Articles

• Glaucous and Iceland Gulls in the west Midlands, British Birds 69:179 (1976)
• White-tailed Plover: new to Britain and Ireland, A. R. Dean, J. E. Fortey and E. G. Phillips, British Birds 70:465–471 (1977)
• Field characters of Isabelline and Brown Shrikes, British Birds 75:395-406 (1982)
• British status and identification of Greenish Warbler, British Birds 78:437-451, (1985)
• Seasonality of Herring Gulls in the west Midlands, British Birds 80: 632, (1987)
• Wintering Glaucous, Iceland and Herring Gulls in the Midlands, Birdwatch (2002)
• Siberian Chiffchaff revisited, A.R. Dean and Lars Svensson, British Birds 98:396-410 (2005)
• The British Birds Rarities Committee: a review of its history, publications and procedures, British Birds 100:149-176 (2007)
• Enigmatic grey-and-white Common Chiffchaffs, British Birds 100:497-499 (2007)
• Colour nomenclature and Siberian Chiffchaff, British Birds 101:146-149 (2008)

References

External links

• Alan Dean's birding website