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by Alan Vittery

Publications

‘Birds of Santa Maria, Azores’  (2018)         

Amazon e-book or e-mail AV for purchase details of printed version  (£12 + p&p).

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Apart from a locally published version, the first and only guide to the birds of this unique and underwatched island at the south-eastern extremity of the Azores archipelago.

A Date With A Bird’ (Hardback, 2020)        

£20 + p&p     E-mail AV for purchase details

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AV’s diary highlights from the mid-1950s to 2019, with something of interest on every day of the year

‘Birds from Budens and Salema, Algarve’  (2022)     

Free from AV to visitors to area  –  e-mail location

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A personal bird report from AV’s first five years in this strategic and underwatched area at the south-western tip of Europe, including South Atlantic and tropical seabirds, potential colonists from the Maghreb and eastern vagrants new to Iberia.

‘Notable Movements and Concentrations of Migratory Birds’  (2022) 

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A more detailed analysis of some remarkable movements and assemblages than was possible in ‘A Date with a Bird’.

‘Taxonomic Teasers’  (2022)       

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A review of inter-relationships in some complex bird groups: water pipits, red-tailed buzzards, large white-headed gulls, southern grey shrikes, Scottish crossbills and redpolls

‘Rare and Scarce Birds in South-west Algarve’  (2023)   

Amazon E-book or e-mail AV for purchase details of printed version (£8 + p&p)

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An analysis of changing patterns of occurrence in response to climate change, including many species new to Portugal.

‘The Pigeon Post  –  2024 Omnibus Edition’    

Amazon e-book or e-mail AV for purchase details of printed version (£10 + p&p)

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A humorous look at real Algarve events from the birds’ perspective.