Jon Franklin ~ Director and founder of Sussex Peregrine Study
Jon is an experienced raptor specialist dedicated to researching Peregrine and Gyrfalcon populations. He has studied falcons throughout the UK and overseas (France, Iceland, Scandinavia) over the past 20 years. He also has many years of practice as a raptor rehabilitator and is a licenced ringer for birds of prey. He has worked with global and regional conservation organisations, local authorities, Sussex police and is regularly consulted regarding the prevention of disturbance, population evaluation and mitigation.
contact: peregrinefalcon@live.co.uk
Phil Everitt ~ Co Director, Joined Sussex Peregrine Study in 2005 following the death of founder member Bart Atfield
Recently retired, Phil's background includes art and design, teaching and staff training in the public sector. He is an expert on all types of raptor, specialising in Honey Buzzards, Peregrines and Harriers. He has been a long serving council member for the Sussex Ornithological Society and has given numerous lectures on birds of prey in the UK and overseas (USA, Poland).
Phil is a licensed ringer for birds of prey and a Schedule 1 licence holder.
contact:phil.everitt@btinternet.com
Dr Mike Nicholls (PhD, MSc, MIBiol, FHEA)
Mike is a lecturer in Education at the University of Greenwich, a published environmental educator, raptor biologist and consultant.
His experience includes staff training in public education and assessment for Bird of Prey centres, other zoos and environmental interpretation
centres.
Mike is also an Open College Network and LANTRA assessor/verifier; teaching workshop experience specialising in birds of prey and environmental education in UK and overseas (Canada, USA, Portugal, Greece, South Africa, Sweden) he is a member of the Hawk Board Education Committee;
contact:Drhawk@hotmail.co.uk
Dave Pegler ~ Climber and expedition advisor. Dave is an expert Ice-fall climber and has climbed in the Canadian Rockies, Colorado, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France. Living on the south coast, he also has a passion for climbing the local chalk cliffs.
Dave co-ordinates the climbing activities for Sussex Peregrine Study, ( specialist chalk climbers are required to climb to the nest sites for ringing the chicks, collecting samples of old peregrine egg shells for scientific analysis and collection of DNA samples).
He has also contributed numerous articles focusing on ice-falls and chalk climbing.
Contact: www.peglers.co.uk
Denis Corley~ An early interest in the Tubenose family of birds led to a first encounter with Peregrines on the coast of Pembrokeshire in 1973 whilst returning from the island of Skokholm.
That proved to be the first step in a 35 year study of the species in all parts of
the UK as well as Europe, the USA and
Australia, greatly encouraged by
Derek Ratcliffe and Dick Treleaven.
During the last 25 years, Denis has played a part in conducting annual surveys in Devon and Cornwall as well as assisting with similar fieldwork in several other counties, including Surrey, Sussex and
Caernarfonshire. He has acted as advisor to the "London Peregrines"Group and produced regular summary reports of
the Peregrine population for the B.T.O.
Current activities include the
establishment of closer contacts with French Peregrine specialists
in Northern France
Mali Halls ~ spent all his working life in Suffolk, working for the United States government. Since retirement he has taken the opportunity to pursue his passion for predatory birds. Formerly a professional photographer, Mali now lives in Sussex and has been involved in field work monitoring and photographing peregrines in Sussex over the past few seasons.
A selection of Mali's Peregrine images can be seen on the Gallery page
