The aim of the LBRC is to encourage visiting birders to submit their records, in particular to provide addiitonal details of national Greek rarities, local Lesvos rarities and breeding records of the scarcer breeding species.

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LBRC members

The LBRC members are:

Eleni Galinou (LBRC Secretary)
Eleni comes from Agia Paraskevi in central Lesvos. She is an environmentalist and a PhD student working on tits breeding in the pine forests of the island. She is also a bird ringer and a member of the Hellenic Bird Ringing Center.

Steve Dudley
Steve is an annual visitor to Lesvos spending up to four weeks per annum on the island, visiting every spring and most autumns. He runs Lesvos Birding, a website dedicated to birding on Lesvos, and is one of Lesvos' most experienced bird and wildlife guides leading holidays on the island for Lesvos Birding and other bird and wildlife holiday companies. He is also author of A Birdwatching Guide to Lesvos (Arlequin Press, 2009). Steve's day job is running the British Ornithologists' Union including managing the BOU's Records Committee (BOURC) which maintains the British List.

Nikos Probonas
Nikos is the Secretary of the Hellenic Rarities Committee and provides a direct link between LBRC and HRC. His mother comes from Mesotopos on Lesvos, and he regularly holidays on the island. He has been a member of HOS since 1993, and is currently working on a new book The Birds of Aegean (in press, due July 2009). His favourite birding destination is the island of Naxos, Cyclades, and his second wildlife love is reptiles. He is also a member of the Hellenic Working Group for the Slender-billed Curlew.

Terry Robinson
Terry, and wife Sue, retired to Skala Polichnitou, Lesvos in 2007.