Each year the BOU awards a series of small grants (up to £1000) to support ornithological research projects around the world. These projects range from pure...
I am a bird watcher based at Udaipur ( Rajasthan) India. I am trying to have a hand holding on traditional knowledge of tribal communities, reagrding local...
Hello all members, I have launched a new Birding blog which contains Interesting and exciting Birding Observations from all around the world and postings of...
Dear All, Â Friends of Nature (FON Nepal) has recently conducted owl-painting program in the capital city of Nepal (11th July,2008). Altogether 22 students...
Dear Harshit, Â It is really a wonderful idea to start a sharing platform on bird behaviour. Thanks for your efforts. Â Shailendra Tiwari ... From: Harshit...
Dear Harshit, Â It is really a wonderful idea to start a sharing platform on bird behaviour. Thanks for your efforts. Â Shailendra Tiwari ... From: Harshit...
Dear all, Forwarded from ME Birdnet a request for information and discussion on raptos and cultural traditions - I'm sure there are lots of ERSG members with...
Dear members, Just a quick note to pass on this (somewhat dated) message from John in Tanzania. Cheers, Robert Gosford ERSG moderator Yuendumu, Australia Dear...
Dear all, Foprwarding this message from Jevgeni - I note the reference to 'Birds and People' on the website references for the Institute of Ornithology's -...
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...
Dear all, Please find following a cross-posted request from Ashish Kothari seeking information on field guides in Hindi. Which brings up the question - is...
Dear all, Following is a (longish) message from Chege wa Kariuki a bird guide (and all round nice guy!) from Kenya. If members have any details of other bird...
Hello Birding Friends, The Himalayan Bird Count, Winter of 2008 is finally planned on the most popular trekking trails situated in the valleys of Yamuna; ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25679150/?pg=8#WildlifeTrade_2008 Birds The parrot family has more globally threatened species than any other bird family, and the...
Dear Parateek, Â I am a bird watcer based at Udaipur. I appreciate your efforts to record the faunal diversity of ecologically fragile Himalayas. I am not...
Dear all, Greetings from Uttarakhand Himalayas, thought keen birders like you would like to know about our conservation initiative here, we at ARCH seek all...
Dear all, Just a quick note to pass on a reference of interest that I found while trawling through the stacks in the University of Arkansas library while I was...
Dear all, Further to my earlier posting on a reference to Irish bird-lore found during my searches through the University of Arkansas library while there for...
Hello Bob I've heard that in Ethiopia, the hoopoe is considered the messenger between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. And the hoopoe is mentioned in both...
Hallo everyone, Interesting newsclip from AOL: New Delhi- Scores of Buddhist villagers in India's north-eastern state of Assam have performed a unique funeral...
Lynette, That is a wonderful story but with such a sad subject - on my (very) rough calculation this would represent about .5% of the total population. I'll...
Some notes from my recent research trip to Guatemala and Belize: http://birdchaser.blogspot.com/2008/09/2008-maya-bird-research-trip.html Rob Fergus National...
Rob (and anyone else who might be able to answer this query), While you were in Guatemala did you happen to come across a researcher by the name of Rob Cahill?...
Relevant to Mesoamerican ethnoornithology, I have recently discovered that the famous ancestor of maize, Zea mays parviglumis, is closely related in local...
Greetings all: Interested in these past two messages regarding both Quetzal and Lesser Roadrunner. Any ethno-ornithological information in the literature or...
Greetings all: Interested in these past two messages regarding both Quetzal and Lesser Roadrunner. Any ethno-ornithological information in the literature or...
