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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
Published: 16 January 2026
£15.00, plus £2.60 p&p
Suffolk Birds 2024
Published: 11 December 2025
£15.00, plus £2.60 p&p
Books
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
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.
The Millennium Atlas of Suffolk Butterflies
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 details all 35 species recorded in Suffolk during the Millennium Survey (1995-1999), with colour photographs. Other important records up to Spring 2001 are also included. Innovative new colour distribution maps compare the Millennium Survey with the previous survey and highlight 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.