Bird Section Members Night

Wednesday 24 March 2010 (rescheduled meeting of 13th January, postponed for snow)

7.15 for 7.30 at the City Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield.

An opportunity to brighten the dark days of winter with a review of past year's birding holidays or expectations of the year to come. Possibilities on offer at the moment include Trinidad & Tobago, Galapagos Islands and Sri Lanka.

Gems of Potteric Carr

Sorby member Derek Bateson has turned to writing and has recently completed a 102 page book on the wildlife of Potteric Carr, including some 280 colour illustrations.

In eighteen sections, the book covers a range of wildlife from mammals and birds, through invertebrates, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, bugs, cellular and non-vascular plants, fungi, molluscs other arthropods and aquatic life, all to be found at Potteric Carr including lots of interesting life histories and details of recording techniques.

For more information view our members publications page.

Sorby Record No. 44

Our latest publication, Sorby Record No. 44, A Journal of Natural History for the Sheffield Area, is out now and is distributed free to members but if you would like to order a copy, it is priced at £5.00 UK including postage & packing. Have at look at our publications page for more information.

Contents include historical plant records, 50 years of the Sorby Record, fungus gnats and as usual, many other articles of Natural History interest in the Sorby area. 64 pages including line drawings, colour and black and white photographs and distribution maps.

View the table of contents.

Sorby Record Special Series No. 14

The Atlas of the Water Beetles (Coleoptera) and Water Bugs (Hemiptera) of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire, 1993 - 2005, by Robert Merritt, is now available as Sorby Record Special Series No. 14.

This long awaited book is packed with information (160 pages) about species and sites in all three counties with distribution maps of 221 species and some really nice colour pics to go with the site descriptions.

BUY NOW WHILE STOCKS LAST - Limited print run!

For more information and to order your copy, visit our publications page.

Sorby Butterfly Recording Scheme

To stimulate more recording, we have prepared a draft document containing a series of maps generated from the Sorby Butterfly database together with some accompanying information on the recording scheme itself. You can download the document by choosing the link below.

Download (140KB) (zipped Microsoft Word format document).