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5.
Acknowledgements
Volunteer
fieldwork
Our biggest thank you is
to the volunteers who collected the data on which this website is based. The population
trends and other results that we present rely on the sustained, long-term fieldwork
efforts of many thousands of BTO volunteers. Our knowledge of the conservation
status of the UK's bird populations is only possible as a result of their dedication
and enthusiasm. The conservation community owes them an enormous debt of gratitude
for their contribution.
Report
production and analysis
This website presents the
fourth in a series of reports, prepared within the Partnership between the British
Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
(on behalf of Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Countryside Council
for Wales and the Environment & Heritage Service of Northern Ireland) as part
of its programme of research into nature conservation.
Mr and Mrs J A Pye's Charitable
Settlement provided additional support towards the development of the website.
This report includes results
from the Breeding Bird Survey which is funded jointly by BTO, JNCC and RSPB. The
BBS partnership is very grateful to the Environment and Heritage Service in Northern
Ireland and to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Scotland for supporting
professional surveys in areas that would otherwise be difficult to cover.
Susan Waghorn put in a huge
amount of skill and effort in designing and building the website. Helen Carrier
also prepared many of the pages included in the site.
Helen Baker and Ian McLean
of JNCC provided helpful discussions, comments and support during the production
of the website. David Stroud, Rowena Langston, David Gibbons, Jacquie Clark, Nigel
Clark, Jeremy Greenwood and Malcolm Vincent provided helpful comments on earlier
editions of this publication.
The analyses presented on
this website would not have been possible without the hard work of many BTO staff
who organise schemes and collate data sets: Sue Adams, Jeremy Blackburn, Jacquie
Clark, Mark Grantham, Bridget Griffin, Linda Milne, Angie Raven, Angela Rickard,
Brenda Read and Anne Trewhitt. The work is also heavily dependent on the BTO's
computer and database systems operated by Peter Lack and Karen Wright.
We are very grateful to
all of the above organisations and individuals for their contributions to this
report.
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