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Acknowledgments
(last updated October 2005) When we
started this project, we were fully aware that this project would never get off
the ground without the help of many people. After two years, we can say
that the response to our requests for data and other information has been very
positive, and we have received more help than we ever expected. For this
help, we are very thankful to every single contributor. Help has been in
many forms, with some just forwarding an address and others sending large
amounts of computerized data. However small or large the contribution has
been, they have all helped us in some way. We especially
thank EURING and its associated ringing schemes for providing the bulk of
data. In addition to the ringing data, we often asked for additional
information, and the various ringing schemes have been very forthcoming.
In particular, we thank Rinse Wassenaar for the great amount of work and
patience he put into providing the data. We would also
like to thank the following people in alphabetical order who have helped in one
way or the other: Thomas
Albrecht, Christine Alder, David G. Allan, Gary Allport, Omar Al-Saghier, Ako
Amadi, Anders Angerbjörn, Julius Arinaitwe, John Ash, Graeme Backhurst, Franz
Bairlein, Elizabeth and Neil Baker, Sherif Baha El Din, Stewart Balmain, Dawn
Balmer, Sama Banya, Clive R. Barlow, Emmanuel Battokok, Albert Beintema,
Abedelhamid Belemlih, Leon Bennun, Aldo Berruti, Keith Betton, Herbert Biebach,
Linda Birch, Nik Borrow, Chris Bowden, Gus Bowden, Richard Boycott, Mohammed
Garba Boyi, Joost Brouwer, Ian Burfield, Neil Burgess, Neil Caithness, Amadou
S. Camara, Peter Capainolo, Tamar Cassidy, Jaroslav Cepak, Robert Cheke,
Jacquie Clark, Callan Cohen, Nigel Collar, Alan Crabtree, Mary Crickmore, Nicola
Crockford, Will Cresswell, Robert Davies, Josep del Hoyo, Tim Dodman, Denise
Drinkrow, Gonçalo Elias, Ali El Hili, Steve Emlen, Imed Essetti, Mike Evans, Gus
Ezealor, Dave Farrow, Ann Favell, Klaus-Dieter Feige, Wolfgang Fiedler, Lincoln
Fishpool, Jon Fjeldså, Martin Flade, Roger Fotso, Jacques Franchimont, Thord
Fransson, Wulf Gatter, Thierry Gaultier, John P. Gee, Guy Gibbon, George
Gregory, Rolf Gustafsson, Kim Gutteridge, Ward Hagemeijer, Phil Hall, Dawi Musa
Hamed, James Harrison, Jens Haugaard, Francisco Hernandez-Carrasquilla, Marc
Herremans, Jesse C. Hillman, Geoff Hilton, Akos Hivekovics, Christian Hjort, Herrmann
Hötker, Paul Isenmann, Abdou Malam Issa, Milica Ivovic, Colin Jackson, Guy
Jarry, Michael Jennings, Flemming Jensen, Phil Jones, Sam Kanyamibua, Pantaleon
Kasoma, Josiah M. Katondo, Namory Keita, Sarah Kendall, Matthias Kestenholz, J.
B. M. King, Guy Kirwan, Ulrich Koeppen, Jelena Kralj, Lars Lachmann, Pete
Leonard, Jason Londt, Karl-Heinz Loske,
Gabor Lövei, M. Y. C. Lumbanga, Gordon L. Maclean, Rod Martins, Bob McGowan, Branko
Micevski, Katarzyna and Tomek Mokwa, Hans Meltofte, John Miskell, Gérard and
Marie-Yvonne Morel, Wim Mullie, Oliver Nasirwa, Bill Newmark, Stephen Newton, Laurent
Ntahuga, Yaa Ntiamoa-baidu, Sam Nyame, Terry Oatley, Mark O'Connell, Micheal
Oneka, Dieter Oschadleus, Otto Overdijk, Alfred Owino, Erasmus Owusu, Flemming
Pagh Jensen, Vincent Parker, Ricardas Patapavicius, John Paxton, Kjeld
Pedersen, Gidon Perlman, Aevar Petersen, Anatoly Poluda, Derek Pomeroy, Richard
Porter, Geert-Jan Prins, Robert Prŷs-Jones, William Quantrill, Jørgen
Rabøl, Klaus Riede, Sue Robinson, David Rockingham-Gill, Stephen Rodwell, Stephen
Rumsey, Mohammed Younis Abdel Salam, Volker Salewski, Bo Sällström, Pertti
Saurola, Alain Sauvage, Norbert Schäffer, Christopher Schmidt, Werner Schröder,
Karl Schulze-Hagen, Dare Sere, Hadoram Shirihai, Eyal Shochat, Rob Simmons, Jez
Simms, Henrik Skov, Mike Smart, Marleen and Peter Spierenburg, Fernando Spina, David
Stanton, Chris Stoate, Joe Sultana, Paul Sweet, Seydina Issa Sylla, Barry
Taylor, Shibru Tedla, Hazell Thompson, Ulrich Tigges, Namory Tradré, Bernard
Treca, Paola Trovo, Herbert Tushabe, Stephanie Tyler, Bennie van den Brink, Rae
Vernon, Juliet Vickery, Thomas Vikstrøm, Effie Warr, Matthias Waltert, Geoff
Welch, Mark Whittingham, Christer G. Wiklund, Wolfgang Winkel, Elisabeth
Wiprächtiger, Reuven Yosef, Souleymane Zeba, Dietmar Zinner, and the librarians
at BirdLife International (Cambridge, UK), the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds (The Lodge, Sandy, UK), especially Ian Dawson and Lynn Giddings, and
Linda Birch at the Edward Grey Institute library (Oxford University, UK). Special
thanks have to go, however, to the following people whose extraordinary help
and patience went far "beyond the call of duty": Sabine Baumann,
Richard Dean, Bernd de Bruijn, Robert Dowsett, Louis Hansen, Peter Jones, Bruno
Lamarche, Karl-Heinz Loske, Gerhard Nikolaus, David Pearson, and Michel
Thévenot. We sincerely
hope that we have not forgotten anybody (or, forbid, misspelled someone´s
name!). If we have, please forgive us and let us know right away.
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