Occasional Publications

To purchase any of these publications please send your order with a cheque to:

Tony Leech, NNNS Publications, 3 Eccles Road, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6HJ

A Flora of King's Lynn

The Society's 128pp Occasional Publication No. 13 by Frances Schumann & Robin Stevenson is an account of the distribution of over 800 wild plant species in a 5 x 5km area in and around King's Lynn. A 32pp introduction, including over 75 colour photographs taken by the authors, describes the mostly urban habitats in the town. The species accounts which follow include 400 maps.

Price £9.50 including postage.

Checklist of the Birds of Norfolk by Keith Dye and Mick Fiszer

The Society's Occasional Publication No. 12. This handy-sized 40 page booklet lists the 427 full species of bird, and a further 15 recognisable forms, which have been recorded in Norfolk. For each is listed their seasonal abundance or rarity status. Five columns are provided for personal lists.

Price: £2.50 post free.

Flordon Common Transactions

This special edition of the Society’s annual Transactions includes 116pp of articles and illustrations on Flordon Common, the subject of an intensive study by members of the Society to document the changes in flora and fauna that have taken place there since Burrell & Clarke’s account was published one hundred years ago. Over twenty papers cover virtually all groups, together with historical information and a facsimile reprint of the original paper.

Price £8.50 including postage.

Previous Publications

The Society has been producing Occasional Publications for more than 20 years on subjects ranging from birds to dragonflies to grasshoppers to trees.

Several of these have proved to be “best-sellers” and are no longer available in printed form but the Society plans to make some of them accessible in PDF format in the future.

Publications still available in book form are:

  • Catfield Hall
  • Grasshoppers and allied insects of Norfolk, by David Richmond
  • The Ecology of the Egyptian Goose at Holkham Park, Norfolk, by Bryan Sage
  • Birds in Norfolk and the law, past and present, by Martin George

For details of availability and prices, please email info@nnns.org.uk.