Alderney Bird Observatory Ltd
A Channel Islands Registered Company & Charity No. CH624

Board of Directors
Helen McGregor  Chairman
Neil Harvey   Company Secretary and Finance
Hilary Partridge  Membership  Secretary
Norma Paris  Marketing
Tim Earl  Public Relations

The Board is assisted by
John Horton Alderney  Bird  Warden and  Official Alderney Bird Recorder
Matt Scragg Assistant Bird Warden
David Child Avian Research Advisor
Rod Paris Website Manager
Petra Beck Website and accounts

Functions
~ To monitor, record and research the bird population of Alderney including its seabirds and seasonal migrants
~ To encourage the education of the Island’s residents, children and visitors in the importance of avian ecology
~ To report our research statistics and findings to academic groups monitoring climate change
~ To advise policy makers on Alderney about matters that affect the avian population
~ To encourage eco tourism in Alderney, thereby assisting the island’s economy

Our Data Policy
Individuals
The ABO will support individual approaches/requests for information about ABO records of long term data. This data will be provided free of charge on the understanding that the ABO is accredited where applicable.  The data will be provided electronically “as is” and the recipient will be responsible for converting it to the format or layout that they need.
Organisations
The ABO is also prepared to consider making its record information databases available to any national charitable organisation provided that they, in turn, can show that they have website access that makes record information readily available, free of charge, to researchers and interested individuals. Recipient organisations will need to give an undertaking that the information provided will not be onward sold and that the ABO will be accredited with providing the data in any publication.  The records will be provided electronically “as is” and the recipient organisation will be responsible for converting it to the format or layout that they need.  

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