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British Birds is owned and published by BB 2000 Limited, the Directors of which are John Eyre (Chairman), Nick Askew, Jeremy Greenwood, Ciaran Nelson, Ian Packer, Adrian Pitches and Richard Porter. All BB 2000 Directors are unpaid volunteers.

BB 2000 Limited is wholly owned by the British Birds Charitable Trust (registered charity No. 1089422) whose trustees are Richard Chandler, Jeremy Greenwood, Ian Newton and Peter Oliver.

Below are short profiles of the Directors and Trustees:

John Eyre (Chairman) - John lives in Hampshire and is Chairman of Hampshire Ornithological Society and co-editor of Birds of Hampshire. He has served on the BTO Council and is currently Chairman of the Atlas Working Group. Locally, his primary interest is in heathland birds particularly on the Thames Basin Heaths SPA. He is also a keen world birder.

Richard Chandler - Richard, who lives in Northamptonshire, has a particular interest in waders and in wildlife photography. He has had an involvement with BB since 1980 when he became a Photographic Consultant, and subsequently joined the Editorial Board in 1987. He was one of the team that took over the running of BB in 2000.

Jeremy Greenwood - Jeremy started birdwatching in about 1954 and was lucky enough to be able to make a career as an ornithologist and population biologist. After 20 years lecturing at the University of Dundee, he spent 20 happy years as Director of the BTO, retiring in 2007.  He is now attached to the University of St Andrews, where he is working on ornithological statistics and the history of ornithology.

Mark Holling - Mark is Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel which publishes its annual reports in BB. Formerly a systems analyst and project manager for a bank, his main interests have always been bird-related and he is especially interested in the status and distribution of birds in Britain. Originally a Yorkshire lad, he now lives on the East Lothian coast in Scotland. Much of his birding time is spent exploring new tetrads for bird atlases, or topping up his Lothian list. He co-authored The Breeding Birds of South-east Scotland (1998) and is now on the team doing fieldwork for the follow-up which will also cover winter distributions. If not out birding, you might find him cycling with a pair of binoculars round his neck, or at home catching up on his 30+ years of BB.

Conor Jameson

Conor Jameson – Conor describes himself as a Scots-Irishman, born in Uganda and living in England, where he has worked for the RSPB since 1995. Conor has been an editor, campaigner and PR manager for the RSPB, with some time in between working with BirdLife Partner Nature Seychelles. His current role involves managing the RSPB’s grant-seeking from trusts and foundations across the UK, for projects at home and overseas. Conor is a regular contributor to RSPB titles and other publications, and won BBC Wildlife magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year in 2010. He is currently researching what he calls his ‘biogumentary’ – working title ‘Looking for the Goshawk’.

Ciaran Nelson – Ciaran lives in Cambridgeshire, but wishes it was Norfolk. A professional communicator, he spent five years working for the RSPB across the East of England, ending up at the helm of the national press office. He now heads up Anglian Water’s media team. Ciaran is helping British Birds buck the trend of downward circulations while embracing new technologies, securing a well-deserved future for the journal. He is addicted to newspapers, and regularly spends his weekends misidentifying waders.

Ian Newton – Ian has had a lifelong interest in birds, and has studied them as a career for more than 40 years. In his spare time, he does more of the same things. He bought his first copy of BB at age 12, and has been a regular reader ever since. His main interests are in population ecology and migration, on which topics he has written several books. He has served as Chairman of the RSPB, the British Ornithologists Union and the British Trust for Ornithology.

Peter Oliver – Peter has watched and studied birds for as long as he can remember.  He has been the chairman or treasurer of several leading conservation bodies and was part of the team that took over  in 2000.  He has been a trustee of the British Birds Charitable Trust since its inception.

Ian Packer - Ian, a chartered accountant, lives in south Derbyshire and is the finance director of a Birmingham precision engineering company.  He is pleased to have been able to contribute to improving BB‘s financial standing and putting it on a firm footing to go forward.  A keen and moderately competent birder, he has travelled widely and enjoys birding wherever he happens to be. He has been a BB subscriber for over 40 years.

Adrian Pitches – Adrian is a BBC journalist who lives on Tyneside. He compiles the monthly News and comment column in BB. A birder for nearly 40 years, he’s the co-author of Birds New to Britain 1980-2004. Outside the Western Palearctic, his primary interest is in the birds of Africa and Asia; he’s a former Council member of the Oriental Bird Club.

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Richard Porter – Richard who lives in north Norfolk, worked for the RSPB for many years. Currently he advises BirdLife International on their Middle East programme, specialising in Yemen and Socotra. He is also adviser to Nature Iraq on its conservation projects and trains and directs their staff for their Key Biodiversity Area surveys. He is a past member of BBRC, BOURC and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, also author of Birds of the Middle East and a council member of the World Land Trust.