ADVISORY PANEL
PANEL OF ADVISORS
All matters of identification, taxonomy and occurrence of rare birds is adjudicated upon by the British Birding Association and reported in assorted publications and published. LGRE relies heavily on the wide range of expertise provided by the Panel of Advisors for any decision made by the organisation.
The British Birding Association/UK400 Club Advisory Panel includes a wide range of internationally respected ornithologists including Chris Heard (identification), Arnoud B van den Berg, Killian Mullarney, Dick Forsman (raptors), Visa Rauste (gulls), Peter Adriaens (gulls), Ruud Altenburg (gulls), Lars Svensson, Marcel Haas (WP occurrences), Magnus Robb (vocalisations), Antony McGeehan, Angus Murray (Scottish occurrences), Mashuq Ahmad (gulls, identification), Chris Batty, Mark Golley, Steve Arlow (Caspian Gulls), Jim Lawrence, John Hewitt, John McLoughlin, Paul Holt, Lee Gregory, Graham Catley, Steve Whitehouse, Grahame Walbridge, Martin Cade, Martin Palmer, Matthew Deans, Dave Walker, Dave Holman, James Lidster, Ian Barnard and John Swann, Keith Vinicombe (identification & records).

