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Date(s)
- 1944-1994 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
2 hard back binders with enclosures (8 cm)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
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Scope and content
The file principally comprises notes on literary references, sightings, identification, distribution, calls, habitats and habits of wild birds, mainly in Wales, but with some examples from England, Scotland and Jersey. Some of the observations are Condry's own, but many are quotations or summaries from diaries or articles by other naturalists, especially J. H. Salter and E. H. T. Bible. Of particular importance are extracts copied from Salter's notebooks, monitoring the red kite population between 1902 and 1933.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The enclosures have been retained where Condry placed them, since they usually have a particular relevance to the bird entries on the main, numbered pages of the binders.
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. = Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio â Deddf Warchod Data 2018 a Rheoliadau Diogelu Data Cyffredinol 2018 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright of William Condry’s writings belongs to Mrs Penny Condry, Ynys Edwin, Eglwys-fach, nr Machynlleth, Powys, September 2000.
Usual copyright laws apply
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Finding aids
Species are indexed at the beginning of the first ring-binder.
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Note
Enclosures: enclosures are numerous and include general notes regarding the decline of farmland birds, tit invasion, mountain birds, bird ecology and distribution, sightings of mammals, reptiles, fish and insects, bird-nesting, and climate, mainly in Merioneth; printed articles, press cuttings, bulletins and newsletters of ornithological societies; and correspondence relevant to the bird records including letters from Peter Benoit, [c.1959], on black-headed gulls, T.A.W. [Davis], 1959, discussing an injured barn owl, reptiles and news of birds spotted, Cecil Lambourne, 1956, on the whiskered tern, Morrey Salmon, 1955-1962, on the kentish plover, kittiwakes and choughs, and peregrine falcons, Derek Ratcliffe, 1960-1964, concerning peregrines, and H. R. H. ('Taff') Vaughan, 1953, on red kites.
Note
Preferred citation: PN3/1