Steve Madge

Steve Madge (15 January 1948 – July 2020)^[1] was a birder, author, and bird tour leader, based in Cornwall, England.^[2]

He was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee and president of the Cornwall Birdwatching and Preservation Society.

He wrote three volumes in the Helm Identification Guides series - on Wildfowl, Crows and Jays and Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse, and co-authored The Handbook of Bird Identification (1998) with Mark Beaman.^[3][4]

References

1. Clegg, Darrell (22 July 2020). "Steve Madge 1948-2020". Cornwall Bird Watching & Preservation Society.
2. Fegely, Tom (19 February 1989). "Ease Boredom of Snowless Winter with a New Book Focus on Nature". The Morning Call. p. 14. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
3. Pittaway, Ron (April 1999). "review of The Handbook of Bird Identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic". Ontario Birds. 17 (1): 30–31.
4. Beaman, Mark; Madge, Steve (2010). The Handbook of Bird Identification: For Europe and the Western Palearctic. Helm Identification Guides. A&C Black. ISBN 140813523Xillustrated by Alan Harris, Dan Zetterström, Hilary Burn, Laurel Tucker, Martin Elliott, Peter Hayman; 872 paged{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)