Chairman’s Report International Touraco Society Annual General Meeting 3 rd April 2005 at 2 pm By David Jones Cotswold Wildlife Park

International Touraco Society growing in strength steadily increasing numbers acceptable finances moving in the right direction financial reserves larger to support project captivity or in the wild find someone pen to paper new content editor cannot do it all range of articles quality of magazines

Costs less 10 th October 2 new members 2 renewals Total £170 (posters, back issues, mugs) 6 th March 2 new members 5 renewals Total £ No National Two shows at Stafford

Social meeting Bristol Zoo Saturday 24 th September guided tour enjoyable day

Membership £10 UK £13 Overseas No change Extra £3 postal costs Cash, cheque, bank transfer or PayPal UK members more opportunities visits in Europe

Member Numbers AGM 2005AGM 2004 Paid 0565Paid 0448 Paid 0465Paid 0344 Total130Total92

Where from? UK82 Overseas48 Total130

From 20 Countries 1 Argentina 1 Bahrain 1 Belgium 1 Canada 2 Eire 3 France

2 Germany 1 Hungary 1 Israel 1 Kenya 1 Madagascar 4 Netherlands 2 Portugal

7 South Africa 2 Spain 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 82 UK 15 USA 1 Zimbabwe

Website Overseas equal footing to UK No 5 overseas 34 UK 34 members paid via PayPal Total of £ via PayPal - 7 months

New or edited items Thumbnails of committee members (members only) 2004 AGM minutes (members only) Article in German - Tauraco hartlaubi 2005 AGM details Contents list Issue 22 Mugs for sale August Committee Meeting minutes (members only) Magazine contents full list Members News (members only) - New entry Dec 04

Extra information and photos about Red-crested Touracos Extra information and photo - Great Blue Touracos pdf copy of article African Bird Club magazine (members only) White-cheeked article in English and Dutch (members only) Additional species names for touracos in Dutch Messages last updated – 13 th February 05 Members advertisements updated – 7 th March 05 Wooden items for sale Numbers of members and countries they come from (members only)

Items still like to add More about committee members (members only) More articles and photos about each species More articles about management of touracos More pages translated into main languages Enlarged web shop More regularly updated ‘News’ page (members only) More members’ advertisements

My thanks Members of the Committee and other members Paul Wexler as Editor of the magazine Clive Humphreys as co-editor and taking on the job as Editor Darron Corden as Treasurer and his efforts at the Stafford sales Nigel Hewston as Secretary

My thanks to all of you for listening!