Hi, We are conducting a survey on amnesty for illegal immigrants in the UK for the next 6 months at http://www.skillipedia.com . We want to hear opinions...
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Hiren Soni
rajvarni
Oct 19, 2006 9:22 am
HELLO MY DEAR ALL MEMBERS! WISH ALL OF U AND YOUR FAMILY "HAPPY DIWALI & HAPPY NEW YEAR". AAP SABKO "SONI PARIVAR" KI TARAF SE "NAYE SAAL KI BAHOT BAHOT SHUBH...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 30, 2006 11:55 pm
Dear all, Following a few months of (southern) winter torpor I have relocated to the Northern Territory in Australia's tropical north. I'm posting this update...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 12:01 am
A recent presentation by Rob Fergisat the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers 2006 Annual Conference October 13-14, Rutgers...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 12:06 am
Dear all, I was unable to make it to the 4th NOAC and am curious as to whether any ERSG members did and would be able to provide members with a brief report on...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 12:15 am
Dear all, Further to the ERSG update earlier today I'm posting this note with some links to recent research and study on people, birds and climate change. In...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 3:41 am
Dear ERSG members, This CFP for the AOC 2007 has been out for a while so I thought I'd post it for the information of members. The AOC 2007 CFP is at and links...
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Shepard Krech III
Shepard_Krec...
Oct 31, 2006 11:43 am
For an item of interest to those on this list, see: Shepard Krech III, "Birds and Eskimos." In Arctic Clothing of North America--Alaska, Canada, Greenland,...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 12:06 pm
Dear Shepard, Your note made it! - if you have a pdf or word file you should be able to download it under "Files" on the left-hand side of the page. We look...
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FERGUS, Rob
birdchaser999
Oct 31, 2006 1:50 pm
Hey Robert, thanks for noticing my presentation. I'm working with linguist Kerry Hull to document Ch'orti" Mayan bird names and folklore. Next year we will...
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FERGUS, Rob
birdchaser999
Oct 31, 2006 1:53 pm
I presented at NAOC, but didn't notice any outright ethnoornithological presentations...unless you consider bird conservation or academic ornithology to be...
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Leonardo Cabrera
yecahuazac
Oct 31, 2006 3:07 pm
Dear All, I also attended to the NAOC 2004 and in agreement with Rob, but being sincere, it did not surprised me the lack of ethno-ornithological studies, it...
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Leonardo Cabrera
yecahuazac
Oct 31, 2006 3:45 pm
Dear members of the list, I am organizing a symposium titled "Exploring bird conservation by indigenosu people: insights for bio-cultural conservation" and I...
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Leonardo Cabrera
yecahuazac
Oct 31, 2006 3:46 pm
Hi Rob, Would you share your presentation to the list? a paper you may have? I am very interested in your research at Guatemala. Thank you Leonardo Cabrera...
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FERGUS, Rob
birdchaser999
Oct 31, 2006 4:23 pm
What I presented was just a power point presentation with some of our initial findings and some fun stories about birds as omens, etc. We're working on a...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 9:36 pm
Dear Members, Please find below two references from the area of the former Soviet Union concerning raptor ethnoornithology. I'm unsure if I've distributed this...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 10:17 pm
Dear members, Its been some time since the first ERSG Newsletter (to see a copy go to the FILES section of the ERSG website) and I've received a few requests...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Oct 31, 2006 10:51 pm
Dear all, Just a quick note to advise that I have today posted a version to the ERSG website (under FILES) of my Mid-term paper, entitled "A Central Australian...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 1, 2006 8:45 pm
Dear Rob, I note the reference to your informant being unsettled looking at a bird through binoculars and this reminds me of one of the traps when using...
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FERGUS, Rob
birdchaser999
Nov 1, 2006 9:01 pm
Yes, field guides have not been all that helpful to us. In one case, we struggled with an informant's description of a bird. Finally I suspected that it had...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 1, 2006 9:21 pm
Dear members and Leonardo, Thanks for the advice in this post. I want to apologise for my lax response to your earlier request for me to join this symposium...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 1, 2006 9:36 pm
Dear Rob and members, Just a quick note on the value that linguists (and anthropologists) can bring to ethnoorn research - this may seem obvious to many of us ...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 1, 2006 10:16 pm
Dear all, Just to pick up on one Leonardo's points from his posting ... I agree that 'western' ornithology has largely ignored the existence of indigenous...
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Leonardo Cabrera
yecahuazac
Nov 2, 2006 2:10 am
Dear members and Robert, I hope they accept it, they are reviewing it. The idea of the symposium caused a good reaction to people at the front of the NOC when...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 2, 2006 3:28 am
Dear members, Just a short note to advise that I have placed an updated and revised ERSG Update for November at FILES on the ERSG website. This was prepared...
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laniarius55
Nov 2, 2006 8:09 am
Hello, I am based in northern Tanzania, at Arusha in the midst of big game safari country, yet a growing proportion of my effort is directed toward seeking...
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FERGUS, Rob
birdchaser999
Nov 2, 2006 12:19 pm
Amen. In many cases, it takes a trained linguist to even hear what the correct name of the bird is in the native language if you aren't fully trained in it....
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 2, 2006 11:18 pm
Dear colleagues, Sonia Tidemann has just forwarded details of the outcomes of the Ethnoornithology Roundtable held at the IOC in hamburg in August this year. I...
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wanakipa
Nov 3, 2006 5:55 pm
In the spirit of sharing ideas, I have attached a project proposal for conservation in New Guinea that is built upon traditional knowledge. The research that...
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Robert Gosford
robert_gosford
Nov 4, 2006 6:58 am
Dear all - The following is a message from Eunice Dus, a graduate student at the University of Papua New Guinea and contains details of the work she is doing...
