Previous work
Fieldwork
2024: Some bookings in diary already but available for enquiries (see Contact page)
2023: Survey work on SSSIs in Norfolk and Suffolk, brownfield sites in Teesside, an urban nature reserve in Norwich, farms in Lincolnshire and Kent and a quarry in Somerset.
2022: Survey work on farms in Norfolk (see Deepdale report here) and Lincolnshire, flood meadows in Berkshire, brownfield sites in Kent and Leicestershire, quarries in Worcestershire and Wrexham. Specimen identification for two other clients.
2021: Undertaking survey (plus identification and reporting) on a protected site in south-east England, and on a brownfield site in the West Midlands. Desk-based assessment of available data for a potential quarry extension.
Publications
Andy has authored or co-authored over 70 papers and reports, on a wide range of topics. A selection illustrative of this range is given below:
• Eaton, M.A., Brown, A.F., Noble, D.G., Musgrove, A.J., Hearn, R.D., Aebischer, N.J., Gibbons, D.W., Evans, A. & Gregory, R.D. 2009. Birds of Conservation Concern III: priority species for conservation action in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. British Birds 102: 296-341.
• Johnston, A., Moran, N., Musgrove, A., Fink, D. & Baillie, S.R. 2020. Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data. Ecological Modelling 422 View at journal website (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108927)
• McInerny, C.J., Musgrove, A.J., Gilroy, J.J., Dudley, S.P. & the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee. 2022. The British List: a Checklist of Birds of Britain (10th edition). Ibis 164: 860–910.
• Musgrove, A.J. & Armitage, M. 2000. Rediscovery of the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Hemaris tityus L in Breckland. Entomologist's Record 112 : 75-76
• Musgrove, A.J. 2002. The non-breeding status of the Little Egret in Britain. British Birds, 95, 62-80.
• Musgrove, A.J., Langston, R.H.W., Baker, H. & Ward, R.M. (eds.) 2003. Estuarine Waterbirds at Low Tide: the WeBS Low Tide Counts 1992-93 to 1998-99. WSG/BTO/WWT/RSPB/JNCC, Thetford
• Musgrove, A.J., Austin, G.E., Hearn, R.D, Holt, C.A., Stroud, D.A. & Wotton, S.R. 2011. Overwinter population estimates of British waterbirds. British Birds 104 : 364-397
• Musgrove, A.J., Siriwardena, G.M., Noble, D.G., Risely, K. & Calbrade, N. 2011. Research in support of a targeted review of the current UK network of terrestrial and coastal Special Protection Areas (SPAs). BTO Research Report no. 594.
• Musgrove, A.J., Aebischer, N.J., Eaton, M.A., Hearn, R.D., Newson, S.E., Noble, D.G., Parsons, M., Risely, K. & Stroud, D.A. 2013. Population estimates on birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom. British Birds 106 : 64-100
• Musgrove, A.J. 2019. Wildlife Report 2018: Sawflies. Trans. Norfolk Norwich Nat. Soc. 52 142-147
• Musgrove, A.J. 2019. A male specimen of the sawfly Monostegia abdominalis (F.) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) from Wheatfen, East Norfolk. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist., 32, 111-112
• Musgrove, A.J. 2020. Third British record of Rynchobanchus flavopictus Heinrich (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae). Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist., 33, 56
• Musgrove, A.J. 2020. First record of Cenocoelius aartseni (van Achterberg) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in Norfolk. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist., 33, 155-156
• Musgrove, AJ. 2020. First recent British record of Tenthredo baetica (Spinola) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist., 33, 231-232
• Musgrove, AJ. 2022. A review of the status of the sawflies of Great Britain, Phase 1: Families other than the Tenthredinidae. Report to Natural England (available at https://www.sawflies.org.uk/resources/#Status)
• Musgrove, AJ. 2023. A review of the status of the sawflies of Great Britain, Phase 2: The Athaliidae and Tenthredinidae (excluding Nematinae). Report to Natural England (available at https://www.sawflies.org.uk/resources/#Status)
• Musgrove, A.J. & Appleton D. 2020. Continued range-expansion by Rhamphomyia marginata (Fabricius) (Diptera; Empididae): the first records for Norfolk. Dipterists' Digest, 27, 116
• Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Baillie, S.R., Boughey, K., Bourn, N.A.D., Foppen, R.P.B., Gillings, S., Gregory, R.D., Hunt, T., Jiguet, F., Lehikoinen, A., Musgrove, A.J., Robinson, R.A., Roy, D.B., Siriwardena, G.M., Walker, K.J., Wilson, J.D 2018. Overcoming the challenges of public data archiving for citizen science biodiversity recording and monitoring schemes. Journal of Applied Ecology View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13180)
• Snow, L.C., Newson, S.E., Musgrove, A.J., Cranswick, P.A., Crick, H.P.Q. & Wilesmith, J.W. 2007. Risk-based surveillance for H5N1 avian influenza virus in wild birds in Great Britain. Veterinary Record 161: 775-781.