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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Dear Eunice, Your research on the calendar birds sounds very interesting and I am sure it will be a good contribution to the growing body of ethno- ...
In response to Steve Shunks' request (originally posted in May) for information on the use of woodpeckers in ritual and folklore: Antony Clare Lees' book *The...
Dear all, It was with interest I noted the affinity of woodpeckers to humans. I noted while working as a warden of Omo National Park back in 1985-86 where ...
James I am no expert in the field (in fact I think I can honestly say I know just about nothing), but keep a watching brief on the topic as I am on the Board ...
Dear Leonardo and the group, I would like to put out my project proposal on Ethnoornithology when I get it finalized. The problem is that it is my first...
We have found the Golden-fronted Woodpecker to be an omen bird among the Ch'orti' Maya of Guatemala. However, almost all birds with a distinctive call are...
James and Giles I have been conducting research into beliefs and traditional practices relating to birds in Zimbabwe for a while and have published two papers...
Hi Audrey, Do you have any insight into the role woodpeckers play in the lives of the people of Zimbabwe? Thanks, Steve Shunk -- Stephen Shunk, Author Peterson...
Dear All, Here in Tanzania, in what has often been termed 'Chagaland', a partly forested, now wooded, apron of well watered country that skirts Mount ...
Dear James, I am here in Tanzania but active in this group and interested to share with you African experience.I have research in this field in North-eastern...
Dear all, Attached is a draft of the proposed project on Calendar Birds of my home province, Southern Highlands, in Papua New Guinea. I would very much...
Dear Rob, In relation to the problems of different visual literacies when it comes to identifying birds from fieldguides or photographs, group members may wish...
Adam, great comment. That’s exactly what we want to do on our next trip to Guatemala. Rob Fergus Senior Scientist | Urban Bird Conservation National Audubon...
Dear EO members, Here in Ethiopia especially in the highlands, the Red-chested Cuckoo is a bird that is associated with with the onset of rains. Its call is...
Dear all, Interestingly, the Pied Crested Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus) is believed to be 'announce' the arrival of the monsoon rains in many south and west...
It is interesting that in Jamaica, two endemic cuckoos (genus Coccyzus) are given the local name "Rain bird". Could this attibute originate in Africa? Most of...
Seems to be a common theme for cuckoos, In the US, at least in the Indiana, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) was called the "Rain Crow" and was...
The belief about cuckoos is quite common also among southern African tribal groups. The call of the Redchested Cuckoo Cuculatus solitarius warns of the coming...
