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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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This report should be cited as:
Baillie, S.R., Crick, H.Q.P., Balmer, D.E., Beaven, L.P., Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Leech, D.I., Marchant, J.H.,
Noble, D.G., Raven, M.J., Simpkin, A.P., Thewlis, R.M. and Wernham, C.V.
(2002) Breeding Birds in the Wider
Countryside: their conservation status 2001. BTO Research Report No. 278. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)

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