David Nurney

David Ian "Dave" Nurney (born May 28, 1959 in Edmonton , London ) is a British bird illustrator.

Life

Nurney started drawing birds as a teenager. In 1981 he graduated in communication design (graphics and illustration) from the Epsom School of Art. In addition to his work as a graphic designer, he produced bird drawings that were published in Bird Watching magazine. From 1992 to 1994 he provided the lineart for volumes six to eight of the Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa by Stanley Cramp (1913–1987) and Christopher M. Perrins from the series The Birds of the Western Palearctic (BWP). In 1999 he illustrated a color plate with night swallows for the fifth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World . Together with Dominic Couzens , he published under the title ID Insights Pocket Cards: British Birds a set of ten identification cards in postcard size, on which 131 British bird species are shown.

Nurney is also a trustee of King's Church in his hometown of Wisbech , Cambridgeshire , where he occasionally organizes bird watching excursions.

Works illustrated by Nurney (selection)

• Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Vol. 6: Warblers by Stanley Cramp and Christopher M. Perrins, 1992
• Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Vol. 7: Flycatchers to Shrikes by Stanley Cramp and Christopher M. Perrins, 1993
• Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Vol. 8: Crows to Finches by Stanley Cramp and Christopher M. Perrins, 1994
• Woodpeckers: A Guide to the Woodpeckers, Piculets and Wrynecks of the World by Hans Winkler and David A. Christie , 1995
• A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia by Martin S. Adamian and Daniel Klem, Jr., 1997
• Nightjars: A guide to nightjars and related birds by Nigel Cleere , 1998
• Pocket guide to the birds of Britain and north-west Europe by Chris Kightley and Steve Madge , 1998 (German: Taschenführer Vögel. Alle Arten Mitteleuropas , 1998)
• Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 5: Barn-Owls To Hummingbirds , 1999
• Autumn bird migration at Beidaihe, China, 1986-1990 (incorporating the report on China Cranewatch 1986) by Martin D. Williams, 2000
• Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan by Raffael Aye and Manuel Schweizer, 2002
• Bird songs: 250 North American birds in song by Les Beletsky, 2006
• Birds of the World by Les Beletsky, 2006
• RSPB pocket guide to British birds by Simon Harrap , 2007
• Birds of East Asia - China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia by Mark Brazil , 2009
• Rare birds day by day by Steve Dudley, 2010
• A patch made in heaven: a year of birdwatching in one place by Dominic Couzens, 2012
• Birds of the Indian Subcontinent - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp, 2013
• Birds: ID Insights: Identifying the More Difficult Birds of Britain by Dominic Couzens, 2013
• Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago by James Eaton, Bas van Balen, NW Brickle and Frank E. Rheindt, 2016

literature

• John E. Pemberton: Who's Who in Ornithology. Buckingham Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-9514965-8-9 , p. 270.