Re: 40-Language Dictionary of Bird Names

Dear OB Colleagues:

I am proud to announce that the non-passerine sections of my
forty-language Multilingual Dictionary of Birds is ready for
peer-review. We are having each list examined by ornithologists who
are native speakers of the language in question.

The dictionary is being published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

The dictionary follows the taxonomic order given by The Howard and
Moore Complete Checklist of Birds of the World, Edward C. Dickinson,
Editor (who has been very supportive of this effort), with two
exceptions. For the convenience of the non-professional birder the
concept of "orders" is retained and, within each genus, the sequence
is alphabetic rather than taxonomic. All of the entries in Howard and
Moore are covered, plus a few additional species, such as some
recently extinct birds and a few doubtful subspecies.

It covers so far Latin, English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Danish,
Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Welsh, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish,
Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Turkish, Hungarian,
Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian,
Indonesian, Maori, Hawaiian, Swahili, and Zulu.

If you would like to peer-review the list for your native language,
please advise. Although any format will be welcome, corrections made
in Microsoft Word with the "Track Changes" option are preferred.

If you know of native speakers of other languages that would like to
supply lists for their langauges, please also advise.

Be sure to include your own name, title, and institutional affiliation
and those of any assisting colleagues for correct acknowledgment in
the final book.

Thank you for your attention and assistance.

Sincerely,

John T. Burridge, "Terry"

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