Our Publications
Annual Publications
Members receive two annual publications – Suffolk Natural History (the Society Transactions), a review of the County’s wildlife, and Suffolk Birds, the County bird report – as well as three copies of the newsletter, White Admiral. Back issues for all these publications older than a year are available online at the SBIS website.
Suffolk Natural History 2025
Suffolk Birds 2024
Published: 16 January 2026
(SNS Transactions)
£15.00, plus £2.60 p&p
Published: 11 December 2025
£15.00, plus £2.60 p&p
Books & Publications
The Society publishes the Suffolk Natural History series of books. These excellent hardback reference works provide a wealth of information about the history, status and biology of Suffolk’s wildlife. With their high-quality photographs, accurate distribution maps and authoritative text, they are essential reading for anyone interested in Suffolk’s flora and fauna.
Dragonflies of Suffolk
Evolution of a Breckland Landscape
From Brandon to Bungay
The Millennium Atlas of Suffolk Butterflies
Authors: Mason & Parr
Published by Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, Ipswich, 2016
Full colour, hardback, 134pp., ISBN 978-0950815473
Size 245 × 170 mm
Price £10.00 plus £2 p&p
This definitive guide to the dragonflies of Suffolk is the most comprehensive study of its kind ever published in Britain. An informed text based on detailed historical analysis, accurate, up-to-date distribution maps and quality colour photographs of each species make this book a must for anyone interested in dragonflies. The contents are of more than local significance. The Suffolk distributions are shown in the context of East Anglia and the analysis of the changing status of many species is of relevance to Britain as a whole.
Author: Richard West
Published by Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, Ipswich, 2015
Softback, 55 colour plates, 110pp.
Size 297 × 210 mm (A4)
Price £10.00, plus £2 p&p
This is another masterly piece of work from Richard West describing the processes and sequence of events that combine to make the landscape of chalkland between Swaffham and Shouldham so interesting. The evolution of the local landscape, as well as the origin of the superficial sediments and the study of the patterned ground widely seen as soil or crop patterns is explained. Most of the observations and explanations relate to periods of cold climate during the last few hundred thousand years, including a period when the Fenland was invaded by an ice sheet. The area is an object lesson on the effect of cold climate on a landscape on Chalk. The text is complemented by a series of colour plates showing the landscape including a unique collection of aerial photos clearly showing the variety of patterned ground features.
Author: Richard West
Published by Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, Ipswich, 2009
Softback, 31 colour plates, 136 pp.
Size 297 × 210 mm (A4)
Price £10.00, plus £2 p&p
This book represents many years of work by Richard West, who first became interested in the Lopham Ford area of Central Suffolk in the 1950’s when he was a research student working at Hoxne near Diss. This area of our county is well known for it’s natural history interest with the renowned Redgrave Fen reserve and the equally important Lopham Fen area. With this book Richard West reveals the geological story behind the natural history. The title indeed says it all.
Author: Richard Stewart
Published by Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, Ipswich, 2001
Full colour hardback, 144 pp., ISBN 0-9508154-6-2
Size 210 × 148 mm (A5)
Price £5.00, plus £2 p&p
This attractive book gives details, including colour photographs, of all 35 species recorded in Suffolk during the Millennium Survey (1995-1999). Other important records up to Spring 2001 are also included. There are innovative new colour distribution maps comparing the Millennium Survey with the previous survey and highlighting changes since the early 1980s. New all-time list of earliest and latest records for each species. Information on best accessible sites for Suffolk butterflies. Sections on habitats, transects and conservation. Foreword by Michael Chinery.