Acknowledgements for 2023

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel would like to thank everyone who has contributed bird records to the Panel’s archives, thus furthering our ornithological knowledge and supporting the conservation of these species and their habitats.

The RBBP is publishing two reports in 2023 – Non-native breeding birds in the UK, 2015-20 (published in September 2023) and Rare breeding birds in the UK in 2021 (to be published in November 2023). To enable these reports, the following county recorders, assistants, report editors and other key individuals submitted data directly to the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The RBBP is very grateful for all these individuals (listed here in alphabetic order) who have contributed this way:

Stephen Atkins, Robin Attrill, Richard Baatsen, Carl Baggott, Keith Betton, Bob Bosisto, Phil Bristow, Ian Broadbent, Simon Boyes, Paul Castle, Paul Collin, Mick Colquhoun, Jon Cook (x 2), Martin Cook, Romano de Costa, Alan Crossley, Steve Culley, Tim Dean, Jim Dickson, Geoff Dobbs, Jim Dustow, Philip Espin, Peter Forbes, Rob Fray, Roy Frost, Alan Gardiner, Jeremy Gates, Brian Gibbs, George Gordon, Jon Green, Andy Hall, Gary Harper, John Headon, Jon Heath, Chris Hill, Chris Hind, Julian Hughes, Ed Hunter, Pete Jennings, Russell Jones, David Kelly, Andrew King, Mark Lawlor, Ian Lewington, Sinclair Manson, John Martin, Tom Middleton, Richard Mielcarek, Martin Moncrieff, Peter Nash, Murray Orchard, Dave Parker, David Parkinson, Roger Payne, Chris Pendlebury, Nick Pomiankowski, John Poyner, Rhion Pritchard, Keith Rainford, Craig Reed, Shaun Robson, Kevin Rylands, Chris Sharpe, Fraser Simpson, Graham Sparshott, Ian Spence, Jacob Spinks, Andrew Stevenson, Rob Taylor, Mick Tracey, Jane Turner, Marek Walford, Mike Wallen, David Walsh, Brian Watmough, Stephen Welch, Martin Wells, Steve White, Jim Williams, John Williamson, Val Wilson, Bernie Zonfrillo. We are also thankful to previous recorders who provided records of non-native breeding birds earlier in the 2015-20 period.

We would also like to thank those who help with the provision of species datasets and reserves data from the RSPB; ringing, Nest Record Scheme, Seabird Monitoring Programme, Heronries Census and Schedule One licence data from the BTO; raptor study data from Scotland (Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme), England (Northern England Raptor Forum) and Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Raptor Study Group); Schedule One licence returns from Natural England, Natural Resources Wales and NatureScot; and other species datasets from specialist studies.

Our apologies to anyone who has accidentally been omitted from this list. Please tell us so that any mistakes can be rectified.

We are very grateful to Mark Holling who designed and built this website on behalf of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel.

We would like to thank the photographers who have kindly allowed their photographs to be used in this website: Ian Andrews, Dawn Balmer, Jack Bucknall, Ian Butler, Peter Cairns, Adrian Darcy, Allan Drewitt, Mark Eaton, Edmund Fellowes, Ian Francis, Steve Garvie, Max Hellicar, Keith Hoey, Mark Holling, Adrian Kettle, Eric McCabe, Stef McElwee, Abbie Marland, the late Derek Moore, RSPB Images and BirdGuides.

Philippa Mitchell is thanked for drawing the RBBP logo.

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel is supported by JNCC (on behalf of the countryside agencies), RSPB and BTO. Additional work in 2023 was funded through sales of the book Into the Red published by the BTO, with particular thanks to Kit Jewitt and Mike Toms.