The attached archived file(s) contain data derived from the long term
field project monitoring individual black-browed, grey-headed and wandering albatrosses at Bird Island (South Georgia).

This is a request to please let us know if you use them.  Several people
have spent the best part of their careers collecting the data.

If you plan to analyse the data, there are a number of reasons why it
would be very helpful if you could contact Richard Phillips (raphil@bas.ac.uk) before doing so:

1)            Occasionally we discover and correct errors in the data.

2)            The data are complex and workers who do not know the study
system are likely to benefit from advice on interpretation.

3)            At any one time, quite a few people within the existing
project collaboration are analysing data from this project. Someone else
may already be conducting the analysis you have in mind and it is
desirable to prevent duplication of effort.

4)            In order to maintain funding for the project and for further analyses, every few years we submit proposals to funding
agencies. It is therefore very helpful for those running the project to
know which data analyses are in progress elsewhere.

If you are interested in analysing the detailed project data in any
depth, you may find it helpful to have access to the full relational database
rather than the files available here.  If so, we are always open to further collaboration.

The individual bird identities have been recoded and should therefore not be linked with data archived from other papers which include albatross data from this study site.