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 to 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] His papers and articles on
Siberian chiffchaff have been of particular note.
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
ISBN0-9507881-0-4 (1982)
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)
The status in Britain of 'Siberian Chiffchaff'. Alan Dean, Colin Bradshaw, John Martin, Andy Stoddart and Grahame Walbridge. British Birds 103:320-338 (2010)
How many Siberian Chiffchaffs are reaching Britain? British Birds 106: 282-283 (2013)
References
^Pemberton, John E. (John Edward) (1997). Who's who in ornithology (1st ed.). Buckingham: Buckingham Press.
ISBN0-9514965-8-1.
^"AGM". West Midland Bird Club. 2010-11-01. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2010.{{
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