Acknowledgements

This website would not have been possible without help from many people:

• Peter Stronach, Peter Gordon & Alex Joss from the Highland SOC branch input freely in to our early discussions and allowed us to copy some of their ideas 
• Stephen Hunter & Ian Andrews from the Lothian SOC branch helped with mapping and computer-related issues
• Many photographers contributed (named on the photographs)
• Tommy Daniels gave us many of his illustrations to use
• Harry Scott of Pica Design kindly sent us all the PDFs of articles from the SOC journal Scottish Birds and allowed us to use articles from Scottish Birding. 
• Many authors submitted additional articles / papers
• Ayrshire Birding allowed us to use two ID articles from their website
• Danny Chestnut from RSPB Lochwinnoch Reserve kindly scanned some journals for us
• David Stone tidied up some scans and made PDFs for us to upload
• Biodiversity Heritage Library allowed us to source articles from them  
• Glasgow Natural History Society allowed us to source articles from the Glasgow Naturalist
• SOC HQ staff, particularly Jane Allison (Development Officer) were always ready to help with advice and feedback  
• Val Wilson, the Assistant Bird Recorder for the Clyde helped out in so many ways including supplying us with all the Daily Grapevines
• The following people kindly gave us much useful feedback before the public launch of the website: Ian Andrews, Tori Bell, Paul Cameron, Jim Coyle, Rhiannon Davies, Pete Gordon, Wendy Hicks, Naveed Khan, Alan Knox, Mark Lewis, Bob McMillan, Angus Murray, David Palmar, John Poyner, Andrew Russell, Kevin Sinclair, Paul Tatner, Graham Thursby, Donald Wilson and Val Wilson.  Their inputs certainly resulted in significant improvements to the site.
• The SOC Clyde Branch Committee was supportive throughout in many ways, including approving the budget, with Emma Anderson, Rebecca Dickson, David Palmar & Zul Bhatia from the Committee volunteering to be on the website sub-group

• We owe our greatest thanks to Kevin McCormick our Webmaster from whom we have all learnt a lot

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Long-tailed Tit © Davie Abraham