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 -- Robert Gosford M Phil Candidate CRES Australian National University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (02) 4441 8717 Mob: 0419483760 Web: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ethnoornithology/ Web email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
