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Speaker: Chris Durdin
Report: Steph Plaster May’s talk was by Chris Durdin from Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays who is also a local ornithologist (ex RSPB), a singer in a Norwich barbershop quartet (Mustard) and also a tour guide at Thorpe Marshes for the NWT. He eloquently told us about the wonderful story of how the Common Crane (Grus grus), Britain’s tallest bird, made a natural return (not an artificial reintroduction) to Norfolk in the late 1970’s. Cranes were once a common feature of the British countryside back in the middle ages, but sadly they were extinct as a breeding bird in the UK by around the 1600’s. The talk was based on the book ‘The Norfolk Cranes’ Story’ which was written by John Buxton MBE (1927- 2014) and Chris Durdin and first published in 2011 with a later edition with an obituary for John Buxton published in 2019.
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