Dear B-A,
For those who may be considering a birding trip to Nepal or the Himalaya region in general, this may be a useful resource.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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> From: “Buckingham, David” > Date: 9 April 2012 0:01:56 AEST > To: > Subject: [OB] new online reference library for birds of Nepal > > I’m passing on this good news from Carol Inskipp. Carol and Tim Inskipp are well-known authorities on the birds of Nepal and their conservation. They have assembled a formidable library on the subject, over the years, and they have now made this freely available on the Internet (hosted by Mark Turin’s Digital Himlaya website). > > This is a significant resource and Carol and Tim are to be congratulated and thanked for this generous act. A lot of information important to bird conservation is hidden away in old, out-of-print publications and unpublished ‘grey’ literature. The Internet is the ideal medium for making this information more readily available. This can, however, entail a lot of work, scanning printed documents into pdf files or (even better) using Optical Character Recognition to convert scanned images into electronic text. I would encourage anyone who has the opportunity to do the same for other countries in the region and publicise the resulting websites via OB. > > Dave Buckingham > OBC Conservation Committee > > > Dear All > Just to let you know that our unpublished bird references are now available online (those where we obtained permission from the authors) for free download at: > http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/birdsofnepal/ > > Our book A guide to the birds of Nepal is also available for free download at: > http://archive.org/details/guidetobirdsofne85insk > Please note this is the second (1991) edition, not the first (1985) edition as stated on the website. > Best wishes > Carol > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic > Messages in this topic (1) > RECENT ACTIVITY: New Members 2 > Visit Your Group > This group is run in association with the Oriental Bird Club. To find out more about the Club and its conservation work, and to become a member, please visit www.orientalbirdclub.org > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > . > > __,_._,___ ===============================
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