Dear all,

Notwithstanding my best intentions to produce an ERSG Newsletter
earlier in the year, I now have a draft ready for distribution and am
making this last minute call for any short notes, news and items of
general interest to our members.

Particularly relevant would be any announcements of Conferences,
meetings, seminars or workshops etc that relate to ethnoornithology or
indigenous knowledge of birds.

I'm also looking for any images(photographs, drawings etc)that I can
incorporate into the Newsletter that either reflect indigenous use or
interest in birds.
Please ensure that any images must be cleared for use - i.e., I must
have permission from the copyright owner/s to publish them in the
Newsletter.

I've been busy out in the field and working on my Masters research and
having returned home from two weeks in central Australia's deserts I'm
keen to get the Newsletter out to you.

If you have any material for the Newsletter please send it to me at
rgosford@... within the next few days and I'll do my best
to fit it in.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Robert Gosford
ERSG Moderator

Thank you for your message. Please note that since 25th of April till May 9th I
am out of the office (and in fact on vacations). I will be able to read and
reply e-mails on my way, but please do not count on immediate reply, it may take
a few days.

In case of emergency please contact Konstantin Burdin in WWF Russia office in
Moscow KBurdin@.... If it is really major emergency (hope not) please use my
mobile +7 916 590 55 80. Otherwise I will be able to reply around January 5th
2006.
With best regards,
Lena

Greetings

Ethno-ornithologists may be interested in the following new book:

John Bradley, Miles Holmes, Dinah Norman Marrngawi, Annie Isaac
Karrakayn, Jemima Miller Wuwarlu & Ida Ninganga 2006,
_Yumbulyumbulmantha ki-Awarawu All Kinds of Things from Country:
Yanyuwa Ethnobiological Classification_, (Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies Unit,Research Report Series Vol 6), St
Lucia, University of Queensland (ISBN 1-86499-826-1), 174 pages,
illustrated.

I don't know the price, but it can be ordered from the publishers on
the web at: www.atsis.uq.edu.au

The Yanyuwa are an Aboriginal people of the maritime environment of
the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north of Australia.  The book is the
outcome of collaborative work between anthropologists and Yanyuwa
elders.  Bradley has been working with Yanyuwa since the 1980s, and
with the passing of many older Yanyuwa is now one of the few
remaining fluent speakers of the Yanyuwa language.

The book provides a fascinating Yanyuwa perspective on their natural
environment, with particular focus on their classification of plants
and animals.  Birds, of course, figure prominently in this account.

Bradley and Miles develop a theoretical perspective from the Yanyuwa
materials that argues for classification being a contextual act
based on diverse factors, including age, authority, utility,
kinship, ecology, aesthetics, ownership of knowledge, and religion.

Chris Healey
(Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University)

Dear Ethno-ornithology netters:

I have just uploaded a file on local names for birds in East
Gippsland, southeast Australia.  This is a new interest of mine
(following on from previous ethno-ornithological research in Papua New
Guinea and Indonesia).

Chris Healey
(Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Australian National University)

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Dear Ethno-orners,

Just a quick(?) note as promised. I note the following short items
before I'll get into my trip report:

1 - We had two recent "spam" postings - I have removed the postings
and also removed the address from where the postings came;

2 - My long promised ERSG Newsletter is in preparation - I'll include
all of the various news and items of interest sent to me over the last
few months.

3 - Please send a message via the ERSG group if you have any queries
or if I can be of assistance.

After many hours and miles spent in airplanes over the last six weeks
I am glad to be home and want to post a brief report on my trip. I'll
post more specific items in the near future.

I began by travelling from Australia to Pennsylvania, USA in early
March to attend and present a paper at the 29th annual Society of
Ethnobiology (SoE) conference held between March 8 - 11 at the
Pennsylvania State University. If you are not familiar with the work
of the Society please see it's homepage at
http://www.ethnobiology.org/. The Interinstitutional Consortium for
Indigenous Knowledge is also based at Penn State U - see
http://www.ed.psu.edu/icik/

While in Pennsylvania I was fortunate enough to do several early
morning birdwalks with Eugene Hunn, Eugene Anderson and Cedric Brown
(three eminence grise of American ethnobiology). On the first morning
walk Eugene Hunn introduced me to the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus
pileatus)- a massive and beautiful bird. We also had majestic views of
two large flocks (approx. 150 individuals) of Tundra Geese flying
overhead on the last morning. You can see a (small but interesting)
part of Eugene Anderson's world at his Krazy Kiotri site at
http://www.krazykioti.com/

The conference went well, the highlights for me being the sessions on
Ethnoecology and Preserving Traditional Knowledge and Ethnoecology and
Conservation. The Saturday Field Trip to the MacNeal's Orchards, where
we were shown Maple Syrup production - from extraction from the tree
through distillation and the final product - was another highlight.

Each of the three conferences I attended on this trip presented great
opportunities for me  to discuss my work with some of the leading
practitioners in the Ethnobiology and Anthropology and to hear of new
developments and approaches in these areas from both academics and
field practitioners.
Several of the delegates to the SoE conference (and others) have
published on ethno-ornithological research in the past and it was
invaluable to be able to meet face-to-face with them to discuss these
issues in context. I'll post a compilation of my papers presented at
the conferences attended on this trip in the next week or so.

From Pennsylvania I travelled to Europe  for a couple of weeks. Due to
changed travel arrangements I had some free time in London so I was
able to put this to good use with research and meetings. I travelled
to Bilbao for a few days in the Basque country and stayed with friends
in the small town of Durango from where we went on several trips along
the beautiful coastline and mountains that make up this part of
northern Spain. I missed out on a seminar to be held in late March on
the "Jardunaldiak: Urkiolako Hegazti Harraparien Ekologia" -
translated roughly from the Basque to English - "Meeting on the
Raptors of the Urkiola National Park" in central Euskal. There is a
growing interest in ecological protection in the Basque country, and,
while the area has long been the industrialised hearland of Spain and
the landscape is heavily modified, there is a strong movement to
preserve Basque knowledge and culture of the environment. While at the
Urkiolako Natur Parkeko Fauna headquarters I watched an webcam of 5
Egyptian vulture (Neophron pernocterus) nests in the hills above the
headquarters and there is a good display outlining the mythology (much
of it based on birds) of the area. I will make some effort to find
more information on Basque bird-related mythology and knowledge when
time permits. Some information on Basque mythology and traditions can
be found at http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/

After my too short a stay in the Basque country I returned to London
and after a day or two shopping (mainly for books and Chelsea Football
Club regalia) I travelled to Cambridge, north of London, to meet with
Martin Walsh, a Cambridge University anthropologist, and John Fanshawe
of Birdlife International (BI), an NGO that is responsible for the
initiation and on-going support for the many Important Bird Areas
(IBAs) worldwide. John and Martin have many years of experience
working in east Africa and are very interested in how
ethno-ornithology might be better incorporated in the implementation
of bird conservation and how ethno-ornithology might contribute to a
better understanding of bird populations, particularly threatened
species and families, across the world. Martin has recently joined
this group and posted two articles on his work in east Africa. I'm
very much looking forward to working with John and Martin in the
future. If you are not familiar with the important work of BI go to
the web page at http://www.birdlife.org/index.html.

I then took a train down to the University of Kent at Canterbury where
I met with Roy Ellen and (all too briefly) Raj Puri of the
Ethnobiology Research Group and the Durrell Institute of Conservation
and Ecology (DICE) at the Department of Anthropology where important
research is being undertaken on important areas of ethnobiological
research. See ERF's website at
http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ethnobiol/researchgroup.html.

From Canterbury I travelled to Durham up near the border of Scotland
to visit with Paul Sillitoe and Robert Layton of the Anthropology in
Development group - see the website at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/research/aid/. I had a long meeting
with Paul and Robert and over lunch with Paul, Aneesa Kasaam and
Mariella Marzano we discussed the AID group's research. Aneesa
conducted ethno-ornithological research some years ago in Kenya and is
looking forward to updating and presenting that research in the near
future.

After returning to London I left for Vancouver to attend and present
at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
This was an very large conference (the conference program and
abstracts ran to 204 pages) and there were just as many interesting
presentations that I missed as I attended! I was part of the
"Relational Conservation: Visions and Practices of Collaborative
Engagements with Lands and Animals" group led by Harvey Feit and Susan
Preston. I attended at a number of sessions and made many new
acquaintances during the conference - I've yet to look at my notes to
see who and what I have to catch up with. Alongside the conference was
a book publishers display and there I found a copy of Graham Harvey's
recently published book "Animism: Respecting the Living World".
Graham's book takes a new look at animism and reveals the diverse ways
of being animist and living respectfully within natural communities. I
am planning to write a review of this interesting material in the near
future.

After Vancouver I went to San Francisco for a few days - unfortunately
the city of sun had been the city of rain for a few weeks and
continued to be so for the time I was there. Notwithstanding the
weather I had a great time exploring the many bookshops and hidden
treasures in this hilly city - good food and coffee also helped!.

From San Francisco I travelled east via Charlotte, NC to Gainesville
in Florida to attend and present at the inaugural meeting of the
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
(ISSRNC) at the University of Florida. The University campus is huge -
there is no other way of describing it - 45,000 students and 20,000
faculty and  staff spread across an expansive campus. The ISSRNC
conference had many interesting sessions and provided a good
opportunity to meet with people involved in this emerging area.

My presentation to the Animal - Human Relationships session was well
received and I enjoyed the sessions I attended. Of particular note was
the presentation by Mark Bekoff of the Jane Goodall Institute and the
University of Colorado at Boulder. Mark discussed his work in animal
behaviour (particularly with canines)and his ideas about how the
relationship between (traditional) scientific research and animal
behavioural studies can be improved - I particularly liked his quote
from Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1933: "The
vision of the world around us that science provides is highly
deficient. It supplies lots of factual information and puts all of our
experience in magnificently coherent order, but keeps terribly silent
about how everything else close to our hearts, everything that really
counts."
Mark will be in Australia later in 2006 and I hope to be able to
arrange an extension of his visit so that he can come to Canberra to
talk at the Australian National University. You can find more about
Mark's work at: http://literati.net.Bekoff

Gainesville was my final stop on this trip and I flew home to Sydney
and arrived yesterday morning ... I'm writing this after a good
night's sleep and looking forward to going through the stack of books,
papers and material I collected (some are still en route) and catching
up with all the new and renewed contacts I have made during the last
six weeks.

As noted above I'll post a compilation of my presentations in the near
future. Please send a message if there is any more information or
contacts you might want.


Cheers.


Robert Gosford
ERSG Moderator

Hi to everyone.  I'm an anthropologist and development consultant
whose main work has been in East Africa.  I've just posted a couple of
papers that stem from past and present work in ethnoornithological
linguistics - in the hope that they may be of interest to some...
Comments are welcome!
Martin Walsh, Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

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Un grna saludo Alvaro,
Felicitaciones por su labor, me encuentro preparando un paper sobre el uso que se le dá a las perdices en el Chocoó colombiano, agradezco si me puede colaborar con información para realizar la discusión de resultados.

Con mucho aprecio

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Hola a todos,
Estoy trabajando con el desarrollo de estrategias de manejo sostenible
de perdices del altiplano boliviano (tinamues) con el fin de que se
apliquen en el ambito rural en comunidades indigenas aymaras. Hasta
ahora tenemos ya 5 años de experiencia en este trabajo y hemos
desarrolaldo estrategias interesantes combinando el saber tradicional
de los comunarios con iniciativas desarrolladas conjuntamente.
Me parece muy interesante poder contar con un espacio de discusión e
intercambio de ideas como este. Me interesaria poder conocer mas de
personas que esten trabajando en esta temática con cualquier otro
grupo de aves.

Desde ya reciban un cordial abrazo

Alvaro Garitano-Zavala

Dear Birdites !

Recently I have received an E-mail (and a personal
telephonic talk too) from Shri K. Mrutyumjaya Rao, who
has sighted Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) at
Telineelapuram Village of Andhra Pradesh.

The content of the same is herewith attested as a
running text.

Hope this would be much informative to all of you.

With best Wishes.

Hiren Soni (Moderator: Gujarat_Birds)

N.B. Some syntex modifications have been made in the
original text to maintain the harmony of subject
matter by Moderator (Gujarat_Birds)

===================================

Sighting of Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) at
Telineelapuram, Andhra Pradesh.

K. Mrutyumjaya Rao, Chandravilla Apt, Block A, Flat
101.   Latchiraju vari Street, Suryarao Pet, Kakinada
– 533 001 Ph: 0884-2353899 (R), 9441214848 (M),
E-mail: mrutyumjaya@...

Dear Shri Hiren Soni,

Here with I am furnishing the detail of “Sighting of
Sarus Crane in Andhra Pradesh” as necessary and
follow-up information for WTI and Crane Foundation
etc.

Location: Telineelapuram, a small village of
Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, is 3 km away from
Tekkali town and 3 km from Naupada Railway Station, on
Howrah – Visakhapatnam railway route about 705 km
distance from Howarah and 179 km from Visakhapatnam.

Some of the Express trains stops at Naupada. There is
also a bus connection from Visakhapatnam to Tekkali
via Srikakulam and from Berhampur (Orissa) to Tekkali
via Palasa.

Telineelapuram:  From several decades, this has been
an active Pelicanary.  It is one of the three active
Pelicanaries of A.P. during September to March. Along
with Pelicans, Painted Storks also nests here. For the
last two years, the Openbill Storks are slowly
establishing their colony at Telineelapuram. During
rainy season, they are roosting near Telineelapuram’s
Pata Cheruvu.

‘Dali Cheruvu’ is an Irrigation tank near
Telineelapuram with an area of 250 acres (a site for
resident birds and migratory ducks too). About 6000 to
8000 Waterfowls visit this tank during peak Winter
months. Great crested grebe is also one of the species
seen here, but in a small number. This year the total
number of birds considerably decreased and their
number is 1500.

For the last 3 years, I regularly hear call of Sarus
Crane in nearby paddy fields of Naupada swamps and
Telineelapuram. This year on 23rd January, I have
sighted Sarus Crane in paddy fields about 0.5 km from
Telineelapuram village. I was also accompanied by Shri
Ramana K and a Watchman Shri Visweswara Rao. The
individual seen was very active and was trying to
maintain the distance of about 150 meters from
observes. Informed by the villagers and watchmen too,
we came to know that in past a pair was regularly seen
for the last 3 years in the same area, but for the
last 2 years only one individual is seen (the one seen
by us).

Accomodation: Amarnadh Lodge is almost opposite to
Tekkali Bus Stand, which is Two-room Guest House with
normal facilities at Telineelapuram.

With Best Wishes.

K.Mrutyumjaya Rao.










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(Research Fellow - Wetland Ecology & Forest Ecosystem)
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Leticia -

Hola!

Welcome to the ERSG website. As noted in a previous message my Spanish
language skills are very limited. I'll endeavour to have your message
translated for me and I'll respond as soon as I can if needed. It is
every encouraging to see some many members living and working in central
and south America and I encourage you to use the ERSG site to promote
your activities and research and those of others relevant to the site.

Saludos desde Australia.

Robert Gosford
ERSG Moderator

Leticia Lopez wrote:
> Hola les estoy saludando desde Paraguay. Soy bióloga de campo, y estoy
> empezando a trabajar con comunidades indígenas, de la Comunidad
> guarani, dentro de una reserva; y los usos que la misma le da a las
> pavas de montes, y gracias a sus observaciones ir conociendo una
> aproximación de la distribucion de las misma dentro del área. Espero
> que podamos intercambiar mucha información y que podamos ser todos una
> ayuda para todos. Saludos desde Paraguay.
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Prashanth,

Hola! Welcome to the ERSG group!

I'll include your information in the next ERSG Newsletter.

Just a reminder to all members that they are free to post to the ERSG
website any files, photos or links to websites of interest or relevance
to the group. This may be particularly useful where members have
preliminary data or information that they might want to share or seek
comments on from other members. It should also be of use where members
have unpublished papers that they might want to distribute for comment
from the group or just to link up with members working in a similar area
in their own, or another, part of the world. Please notify the group
when you post any new information.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to encourage members to update
and maintain their Yahoo profiles and to include some basic information
about their current interests, research or study projects, links to
personal websites or requests for information -  just send a posting to
the site. This allows us to know where you are, what you do and what you
are interested in.

It is also encouraging to see a number of members posting welcome
messages to the site in LOTE - Languages Other Than English - my
language skills are limited to English, basic French and a few
Australian Aboriginal languages so I might take some time to respond to
messages in other languages. I'll try my best with the Spanish messages
- a friend of mine Basque country will help me with the more complex
messages requiring a reply. I would encourage all members to make a
posting in their own language.

We now have 75 members and counting! I have today posted some new links
to a multilingual Ethnomathematics site and to the Indigenous Science
Network based in Darwin, Australia.

Saludos desde Australia!

Robert Gosford
ERSG moderator


Prashanth N S(Y) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Prashanth. I am working on the traditional knowledge of the
> Soligas, a tribe indigenous to forests in South India. I have been
> documenting the folklore on birds, local names and origins of these
> names, hunting techniques etc.
>
> I am quite surprised that we have an ethnoornithology group. Looking
> fwd to a vibrant association.
>
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> VGKK, BR Hills
> Karnataka
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I am interested in reading and sharing traditional stories of the the migratory
birds that are
shared by the People of North, Central  and South America primarily the ones
that nest in
Alaska such as Swallows, Peregrine Falcons and various Warblersl, shorebirds,
too.

Dear all,

The response to the recent posting of the ERSG (Ethnoornithology Research &
Study Group) website has been fantastic. After 20 days, we now have 48 members,
more
than 20 links and a few introductory messages. As has been noted
before it is a bit light on for content and contributions at the
moment - hopefully that will change soon with your contributions.

We are more than pleasantly surprised by the spread of members across
the world - as is fitting of such a diverse topic as indigenous bird
knowledge it is most pleasing to see that we have members from (in no
particular order) the United Kingdom, Colombia, India, South Africa,
Italy, Portugal, Australia, Belgium and a number of states in the USA.

Apart from welcoming you to this group this message has another
purpose - we need your material for the first edition of the ERSG
newsletter. As indicated previously, we want to produce this later
this month so we need contributions as soon as possible.

Can we suggest that your contributions could include any of the
following items relevant to ethnoornithology:

- news from your country, University, institution or yourself;
- a precis of your current or proposed project/s;
- information about upcoming or recent conferences;
- copies of articles, papers or items of interest;
- proposals, suggestions, criticisms or your thoughts on this or
closely related topics and;
- anything else relevant to this topic.

The sooner your contributions come in the better - I'm off to the
Society of Ethnobiology conference in Pennsylvania in early March,
then to France and then back for the Society for Applied Anthropology
conference in Vancouver in late March so we'd like your contributions
by the last week in February so that we can get it out before I leave.

Don't forget to pass this message or news about the ERSG site on to
interested friends and colleagues. Thanks again for joining the ERSG
group - that's the easy part - now we need you to help make it work!

Cheers to you all and enjoy.

Robert Gosford
ERSG Owner and Moderator
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Dear all,

The response to the posting of the ERSG (Ethnoornithology Research &
Study Group) website has been fantastic. We now have 48 members, more
than 20 links and a few introductory messages. As has been noted
before it is a bit light on for content and contributions at the
moment - hopefully that will change soon with your contributions.

We are more than pleasantly surprised by the spread of members across
the world - as is fitting of such a diverse topic as indigenous bird
knowledge it is most pleasing to see that we have members from (in no
particular order) the United Kingdom, Colombia, India, South Africa,
Italy, Portugal, Australia, Belgium and a number of states in the USA.

Apart from welcoming you to this group this message has another
purpose - we need your material for the first edition of the ERSG
newsletter. As indicated previously, we want to produce this later
this month so we need contributions as soon as possible.

Can we suggest that your contributions could include any of the
following items relevant to ethnoornithology:

- news from your country, University, institution or yourself;
- a precis of your current or proposed project/s;
- information about upcoming or recent conferences;
- copies of articles, papers or items of interest;
- proposals, suggestions, criticisms or your thoughts on this or
closely related topics and;
- anything else relevant to this topic.

The sooner your contributions come in the better - I'm off to the
Society of Ethnobiology conference in Pennsylvania in early March,
then to France and then back for the Society for Applied Anthropology
conference in Vancouver in late March so we'd like your contributions
by the last week in February so that we can get it out before I leave.

Don't forget to pass this message or news about the ERSG site on to
interested friends and colleagues. Thanks again for joining the ERSG
group - that's the easy part - now we need you to help make it work!

Cheers to you all and enjoy.

Robert Gosford
ERSG Owner and Moderator
Australian National University
Canberra ACT Australia

Great idea to establish this group and thanks for the invite.

I would be interested in hearing from indigenous people who have
traditional knowledge or interest in migratory birds.

I am currently working on the Swift Parrot, a migratory parrot in
Australia, and am interested in sharing stories and knowledge of this
and other migrants with indigenous people.  I am fascinated by "skins
knowledge" in Aboriginal culture and would be interested to find out
more about this too.

I would be interested to find out if indigenous people actively
participate in this group - it would be a great thing.

Cheers
Debbie Saunders

Greetings

I'm Audrey Steiner, working on my PhD in Social Anthropology in Austin, Texas.

Good luck...

Aziz ASLAN
     Akdeniz University
     Science and Art Faculty
     Biology Dept. 07058
             Antalya/TURKEY
E.mail:aaslan@...

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