Tony Parker

Honorary Secretary

I recently retired after serving over 35 years as Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum, Liverpool. My main duties involved curation and documentation of the museums large collection of taxidermy and spirit preserved specimens as well as maintaining the archive of biological records and contributing to the public events programme.

 I am currently county mammal recorder for NW England (Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester), in this capacity I verify records from iRecord for this region along with mammal data held by local environmental records centres.

I was a founder member of the Cheshire and Lancashire Mammal Groups and contributed to the mammal atlas produced for each county. I have run a variety of training workshops, bat walks and small mammal trapping sessions on behalf of the museum, local wildlife trusts, Chester Zoo, Knowsley Safari Park and at various bioblitzes. I have recently become chair of the Merseyside and West Lancashire Bat Group which has several ongoing surveys in the north Merseyside area. I have been a member of the society for over 25 years and have recently joined the Training and Events Committee.