Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society will publish a special edition of “The Gloucestershire Naturalist” (TGN 31) in 2018: The Beetles of Gloucestershire by Keith Alexander, a much-respected authority and former county recorder.
The result of a long and careful campaign of fieldwork and recording, this publication is an important addition to Gloucestershire fauna reference works and contains much useful information about beetles in the county.
Copies will be available free of charge to members who request it;
And to non-members at a cost of £22.50 inc. post and packing – on-line using Pay Pal by visiting the GNS web-site at https://www.glosnats.org/publications/ or by post from GNS Membership Secretary, 50 Kingsmead, Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5DY enclosing a cheque for £22.50 made payable to Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society.
Orders from retailers and re-sellers for multiple copies may qualify for a quantity discount, please enquire.
As noted in several recent issues of GNS NEWS, much attention has been devoted in recent years to Curlews in Gloucestershire, both wintering birds on the Severn Estuary, and breeding birds in the Severn and Avon Vales. This reflects a wider interest in Curlews and a growing realisation (throughout UK, and indeed internationally) that the Eurasian Curlew has undergone a sharp decrease in numbers in recent years. Much of the interest in the UK has been devoted to birds breeding in upland sites in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland; but appreciable numbers continue to breed across lowland southern England too, and should not be neglected: a workshop devoted to this topic was held in Slimbridge in February 2017, and now a website on this topic (with much support from GNS) has been established at