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Gerard Gorman has published numerous articles and papers on birds, birding and conservation in international magazines and journals. The following is a selection (in various languages) of writings which may be of interest to birders planning to visit Eastern Europe. Good reading!

BIRDING AND IDENTIFICATION ARTICLES

In English
Finding Hungary's speciality birds. Birding World, Vol.5.No.6 (1992).
Bohemia Bound. Birdwatch, Vol.2.No.1. January, 1993.
Birding in Romania. Birding World, Vol.6.No.8.(1993).
Hungary for More. Birdwatching, December, 1993.
The Delta Revisted. Birdwatch, Issue 18, December 1993.
The Birdwatcher's Budapest. Horizon (Malev Magazine) June 1994.
Birding in the Czech Republic. Birding World, Vol.7.No.5.(1994).
Birding Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. Birding World, Vol.7.No.11.(1994).
Birding in Slovakia. Birding World, Vol.8. No.4. (1995).
Hungary's Grasslands. BirdWatcher's Digest, Vol.16.No.3 (1994).
Birding the Fishponds of Eastern Europe. BirdWatcher's Digest Vol.20. No.5 (1998).
Black Woodpecker in Europe - Britain next? Birding World Vol.11.10 (1998).
Pecking Order (Finding Woodpeckers). Birdwatch, Issue 81, March 1999.
Trip Fantastic (Dotterel migration). Birdwatch, Issue 86, August 1999.
The Identification of Syrian Woodpecker. Alula, Vol.5, 3/1999.
Northern Highlights: Scandinavia and the Baltic. Birdwatch, Issue 95, May 2000.
The Birds of the Danube Delta. Alula, Vol.6, 4/2000.
Critical Mass:Birding in Middle Europe. Birdwatch, Issue 104, February 2001.
Aquatic Warbler. Alula, Volume 8, 2/2002.
East is Best. Destinations, Birdwatching Magazine, November 2002.
Three-toed Woodpecker - species, races, clines. Birding World, Vol.17.5.May 2004.
Drum major (White-backed Woodpecker ID). Birdwatch, Issue 145, July 2004.

In Finnish
Lintuja Unkarin pustalla. Linnut, No.4. 1994.
Ita-Euroopan kala-altaat - linukeitaat. Linnut, No.1.1996.
Syyriantikan maarrittaminen. Alula, Vol.5, 3/1999.
Tonavan suisto - lintuparatiisi. Alula, Vol 6, 4/2000.
Sarakerttunen. Alula, Vol.8, 2/2002.

In French
Identification du Pic syriaque (Dendrocopos syriacus) et repartition en Europe. Ornithos, Vol.3. No.4 (1996).

In Hungarian
Madarnezoben Budapesten. Horizon (Malev Magazine), June 1994.
Harkalyok nyomaban (with E.Sos). Madartavlat, Vol.5,No.1.1998.

PAPERS AND NOTES
(Of a more ornithological and/or conservation nature)

Golden Oriole © Clive Byers

In English
After the Fall. Living Bird, Summer Issue (1993).
The Rose-coloured Starling invasion & breeding in Hungary. Birding World, Vol.7.8.(1994).
Fish-ponds in Eastern Europe. Wildfowl & Wetlands, No.110, Spring-Summer, 1994.
The status of owls (Strigiformes) in Hungary. Buteo, 7 (1995).
Cranes on the Hungarian Hortobagy: Birding World, Vol.8. No.12.(1995).
Changes in the East. Wildfowl & Wetlands, No.112, Summer,1995.
Red-breasted Geese wintering in Europe. Birding World,Vol.9.No.1. (1996).
Identifying the presence of woodpecker (Picidae) species on the basis of their
holes and signs. Aquila, Vol.102.(1995).
The Rot Sets In (White-backed Woodpecker) Birdwatch, Issue 77, Nov 1998.
Sakers (Falco cherrug) using a cooperative hunting strategy. Buteo,10 (1998).
The status of Levant Sparrowhawk in Europe. Alula, Vol.4, 4/1998.
Great Grey Shrike (Lanus excubitor) hunting Noctule Bats. Aquila, Vol.103-104.(1998).

In Hungarian
Repülő vékonycsőrű póling (Numenius tenuirostris) megfigyelése a Hortobágyon. (Observation of a Slender-billed Curlew in flight). Túzok, Vol.1. No.2 (1996).
Szokatlanul lefele görbülő csőrű nagy goda (Limosa limosa). Túzok, Vol.1. No.3 (1996). (Observation of a Black-tailed Godwit with down curved bill).
Atipikus farokmintázatú nagy fakopáncs. (Great Spotted Woodpecker with atypical tail colouration). Túzok, Vol.2. No.4 (1997).
Balkáni fakopáncs (Dendropcopos syriacus) műhelyei. (Syrian Woodpecker Anvils) Túzok, Vol.4. No.4 (1999).

In Swedish
Kommunismenns fall. Var Fagelvarld, 6/1992.
Balkanspetten sprider sig norrut i Europa. Var Fagelvarld, 5/1997.

In French
Le Systeme et l'Oiseau. L'Homme et L'Oiseau, Jan-Mar (1993.

In Dutch
Vogels temidden van de (r)evolutie. Mens et Vogel,Jan-Mar(1993).

In Italian
"Via le zampe dalle nostre terre". Alisei, Anno 2.No.7. April (1993).

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