Citation
Eaton, M. Stroud, D. Francis, I, Norman, D, Baker, H., Holling, M. King, A., Stanbury, A. & Balmer, D. 2023. Monitoring five decades of change in the UK’s rarest breeding birds through citizen science: the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. British Wildlife 34: 335–345.
Overview
A review of the work of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) on the 50th anniversary of when it was founded in 1973.
Staff author(s)
The collection of half a century’s data on the UK’s rarest breeding birds has been an extraordinary and huge collective endeavour, involving thousands of volunteer observers, hundreds of county recorders and other data-suppliers, and 24 past and present RBBP members. Critically, it is dependent on funding and/or in-kind support – past and present – from RSPB, NCC/JNCC (on behalf of the country conservation agencies since 1991), BTO and British Birds.