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Sharrock, John Timothy Robin was born on December 6, 1937 in Alphington, Devon, England. Son of John Norman and Maisie Flora (Storey) Sharrock.
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SCARCE MIGRANT BIRDS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND * HOW MANY are seen? * HOW REGULARLY do they come? * WHERE do they occur? * WHEN are they likely to be spotted? The above questions are authoritatively answered by the author, Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union's Record Committee and of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, joint convenor of the European Ornithological Atlas Committee, and a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee and of the Irish Records Panel. Dr Sharrock takes a ten-year period and investigates in detail all the records of a selection of birds which occur here as scarce migrants - birds from Europe, from Asia and from America. He considers their breeding and wintering ranges, and the patterns of their records in Britain and Ireland, and tries to determine, also ...* WHY do they visit us at all? Jacket design by Robert Gillmor
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Sharrock, John Timothy Robin was born on December 6, 1937 in Alphington, Devon, England. Son of John Norman and Maisie Flora (Storey) Sharrock.
Bachelor of Science, University Southampton, England, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Southampton, England, 1967.
Researcher, Potato Marketing Board, Bedfordshire, England, 1963-1966; head of survey section, National Institute Agricultural Engineering, Bedfordshire, 1966-1969; national organizer Breeding Bird Atlas, British Trust for Ornithology, Tring, Hertfordshire, England, 1969-1976; managing editor, British Birds, Blunham, Bedford., since 1976. Member county Cape Clear Bird Observatory, since 1970, president. President Bedfordshire Bird Club, since 1996.
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Member British Trust for Ornithology (honorary), British Ornithologists' Union (past council member).
Married Erika Marion Otte, August 4, 1961 (divorced April 1997). Children: Lorna Wendy, John Kieran Clive.