Publications
The following publications incorporating results from ringing have been produced by members of MRG:
R A Eades, ‘Some results from ringing Dunlin on the Dee estuary in autumn’, Wader Study Group Bulletin 7 (1972) 15-17.
R A Eades, ‘Monthly variations in foreign-ringed Dunlins on the Dee Estuary’, Bird Study 21 (1974) 155-157.
R A Eades and J D Okill, ‘Weight variations of Ringed Plovers on the Dee Estuary’, Ringing & Migration 1 (1976) 92-97.
R A Eades and J D Okill, ‘Weight changes of Dunlins on the Dee Estuary in May’, Bird Study 24 (1977) 62-63.
Chris Mead and Rob Cockbain, ‘Death on the Mersey’, BTO News 104 (1979) 1.
R P Cockbain, ‘The Mersey Estuary bird mortality, autumn 1979’, Cheshire Ornithological Association Bird Report (1979) 11-12.
D Norman, D P Cross and R P Cockbain, ‘The Brambling invasion of Merseyside - 1981’, BTO News 114 (1981) 9.
D Norman, ‘Chaffinch’, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, (P C Lack, ed) T & A D Poyser, Calton (1986) pp.384-5.
D Norman, ‘Brambling’, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, (P C Lack, ed) T & A D Poyser, Calton (1986) pp.386-7.
D Norman, ‘Are Common Terns successful at a man-made nesting site?’, Ringing & Migration 8 (1987) 7-10.
D Norman, ‘Willow Warbler with a temporarily aberrant song’, Brit. Birds 80 (1987) 578.
D Norman, ‘Birds from the Blackstuff’, BTO News 165 (1989) 1.
D Norman, ‘The growth rate of Little Tern Sterna albifrons chicks’, Ringing & Migration 13 (1992) 98-102.
J P Guest, D Elphick, J S A Hunter and D Norman, editors, ‘The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Cheshire and Wirral’, (publ. Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society, Chester; ISBN 0 9517301 0 X), 1992 (310 pp).
D Norman, ‘First breeding of Marsh Warbler in Cheshire: Woolston, 1991’, Cheshire & Wirral Bird Report (1993) 94‑96.
I G Main, ‘Seasonal movements of Greenfinches Carduelis chloris ringed in north-west England’, Ringing & Migration 14 (1993) 117-123.
D Norman, ‘The return rate of adult male Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix to a peripheral breeding area’, Ringing & Migration 15 (1994) 79-83.
D Norman and P Coffey, ‘The importance of the Mersey estuary for waders in the cold weather of February 1991’, Ringing & Migration 15 (1994) 91-97.
D Norman, ‘The Fieldfare’, (publ. Hamlyn, London; ISBN 0 600 57961 1), 1994 (128 pp).
M S Curtis, D Norman and I Wallace, editors, ‘The Mersey Estuary – Naturally Ours’, (publ. Mersey Estuary Conservation Group, Helsby; ISBN 0 9527330 0 5) 1995 (103 pp).
D Norman, ‘Flock composition and biometrics of Fieldfares Turdus pilaris wintering in a Cheshire orchard’, Ringing & Migration 16 (1995) 1-13.
I G Main, ‘Seasonal movements of British Greenfinches Carduelis chloris’, Bird Study 43 (1996) 240-252.
D Norman, 'All the birds of the air' - indicators of the environment, (publ. Ecology and Landscape Development - A History of the Mersey Basin, Edited by E F Greenwood) Liverpool University Press, ISBN 0-85323-653-4, (1999) 225-231.
I G Main, ‘Overseas movements to and from Britain by Greenfinches Carduelis chloris’, Ringing & Migration 19 (1999) 191-199.
I G Main, ‘Obligate and facultative partial migration in the Blackbird Turdus merula and the Greenfinch Carduelis chloris: uses and limitations of ringing data’, Die Vogelwarte 40 (2000) 286-291.
I G Main, ‘The partial migration of Fennoscandian Greenfinches Carduelis chloris’, Ringing & Migration 20 (2000) 167-180.
P Slater, ‘Breeding ecology of a suburban population of Woodpigeons Columba palumbus in northwest England’, Bird Study 48 (2001) 361-366.
David Norman, ‘Common Tern’, The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland, (Wernham, C V, Toms, M P, Marchant J H, Clark J A, Siriwardena G M and Baillie S R, eds) T & A D Poyser, London (2002) pp.388-391.
Dan Chamberlain and Iain Main, ‘Blackbird’, The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland, (Wernham, C V, Toms, M P, Marchant J H, Clark J A, Siriwardena G M and Baillie S R, eds) T & A D Poyser, London (2002) pp.521-526.
David Norman, ‘Wood Warbler’, The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland, (Wernham, C V, Toms, M P, Marchant J H, Clark J A, Siriwardena G M and Baillie S R, eds) T & A D Poyser, London (2002) pp.565-567.
David Norman, ‘Chaffinch’, The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland, (Wernham, C V, Toms, M P, Marchant J H, Clark J A, Siriwardena G M and Baillie S R, eds) T & A D Poyser, London (2002) pp.637-640.
Iain Main, ‘Greenfinch’, The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland, (Wernham, C V, Toms, M P, Marchant J H, Clark J A, Siriwardena G M and Baillie S R, eds) T & A D Poyser, London (2002) pp.644-647.
D Norman, ‘Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos attempting to evade capture by swimming underwater’, Wader Study Group Bulletin 98 (2002) 48.
I G Main, ‘Seasonal movements of Fennoscandian Blackbirds Turdus merula’, Ringing & Migration 21 (2002) 65-74.
T Szép, A Pape Møller, J Vallner, B Kovács and D Norman, ‘Use of trace elements in feathers of Sand Martins Riparia riparia for identifying moulting areas’, J. Avian Biol. 34 (2003) 307-320.
D Norman and A Ormond, ‘The regular occurrence of wintering Firecrests in north Cheshire and Wirral’, Cheshire & Wirral Bird Report (2003) 141-145.