The following appeared in Birdwatching Magazine, April 1999.
It's all change at the West Midland Bird Club, Britain's biggest Bird Club. Alan Richards is stepping down as chairman after 17 years. Readers may also know of Alan through his slide library, Aquila, whch supplies some of the photographs used in Bird Watching."
Having joined the club in 1949, he became secretary in 1964. Nominations are currently being taken in readiness for the AGM on April 21.
Bill Oddie, currently the club's vice president, has accepted the nomination to succeed Tony Norris as president. Bill spent much of his youthful birdwatching in the Birmingham area.
Tony played a key role in establishing the club as Britain's major provincial ornithologial societies [sic] in the late 1940s through to the early 1960s.
The posts of treasurer and secretary will also change.
[Picture caption: Alan Richards is to step down as chairman of the Britain's largest bird club]
"In 1975, the West Midland Bird Club chose the Ruddy Duck as its emblem. It was an attractive speices whch had recently established itslef in the area, settling down on reservoirs and gravel pits — artificially created habitats. The WMBC believes that control measures carried out in Spain against the relatively small number of Ruddy Ducks and hybrids occurring there are likely to be more effective than anything that could be attempted in Britain."
Alan Richards, retiring chairman, WMBC.
Ornithology in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & the West Midlands county, since 1929.
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