Acknowledgements for 2025

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 published the report Rare breeding birds in the UK in 2023 in the November 2025 issue of British Birds. This report was derived from thousands of records received from over one hundred sources. 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, Bob Bosisto, Phil Bristow, Ian Broadbent, Simon Boyes, Paul Castle, Alyn Chambers, Gavin Chambers, Mick Colquhoun, Jon Cook (x 2), Martin Cook, Romano de Costa, Steve Culley, Tim Dean, Jim Dickson, Steve Dudley, Jim Dustow, Philip Espin, Peter Forbes, Rob Fray, Roy Frost, Jeremy Gates, Brian Gibbs, George Gordon, Jon Green, Andy Hall, Gary Harper, Steven Haynes, Tim Hayward, John Headon, Jon Heath, Chris Hill, Chris Hind, Julian Hughes, Rob Hughes, Ed Hunter, Pete Jennings, Russell Jones, David Kelly, Andrew King, Mark Lawlor, Ian Lewington, John Martin, Richard Mielcarek, Martin Moncrieff, Glenn Morris, Peter Nash, Murray Orchard, Martin Overy, Dave Parker, David Parkinson, Roger Payne, Chris Pendlebury, Mike Pennington, Martin Pitt, Nick Pomiankowski, John Poyner, Rhion Pritchard, Keith Rainford, David Raw, Craig Reed, Shaun Robson, Chris Ruis, Chris Sharpe, Martin Sidwell, David Smith, Graham Sparshott, Jacob Spinks, Andrew Stevenson, John Sweeney, Rob Taylor, David Thorns, Jane Turner, Marek Walford, Mike Wallen, David Walsh, Stephen Welch, Steve White, John Williamson, Bernie Zonfrillo.

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 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, Carl Baggott, Stuart Benn, 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, Ron MacDonald, Eric McCabe, Stef McElwee, Abbie Marland, the late Derek Moore, Richard Moores, RSPB Images and BirdGuides. In addition, other photographers have donated pictures to our photographic library, for a variety of uses.

Philippa Mitchell is thanked for drawing the RBBP logo.

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel is supported by JNCC (on behalf of the statutory nature conservation bodies), RSPB and BTO. Additional funding for work improving the RBBP database has been received from the JNCC, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales. We have also received funding from sales of the Red 67 book, published by the BTO, and would in particular like to thank Kit Jewitt and Mike Toms for enabling this.