When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spent within perambulator distance of the Tamar estuary, where his interest in birds was kindled. On leaving Saltash Grammar School, he becam

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