Greetings all. Given that we are now into the new financial year, it is perhaps timely for me to remind subscribers about the simple rules that COG’s Committee has adopted regarding the use of the list. This may be a helpful reminder to
some long-term subscribers, as well as information for new ones.
As list manager, I continued to be very pleased at the way the list runs, with subscribers using it appropriately.
CanberraBirds, COG’s email-based announcement and discussion list
The Canberra Ornithologists Group’s email-based announcement and discussion list, CanberraBirds, has been operating successfully since 1999. It has around 350 subscribers.
Both COG members and non-members are welcome to subscribe and participate in the lists discussions. If you find the list of interest and value, and are not a member of COG, please consider joining the association. Details of how to do so
are online at http://canberrabirds.org.au/AboutCOG.htm .
List rules
The list has a few simple rules that guide its operation. These stress the overarching importance of subscribers treating other list participants with respect and avoiding inappropriate language and behaviour so that participation remains
enjoyable for everyone. It is important that new subscribers, and people new to birding, are made to feel welcome.
Messages sent to the CanberraBirds email list SHOULD NOT
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Be of a purely commercial nature.
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Contain defamatory, offensive, hurtful or inappropriate language.
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Contain personal attacks—discuss the message, do not attack the messenger.
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Contain any photographs of identifiable individuals unless they have given their explicit permission for their images to be sent to the list.
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Include one-to-one private email conversations, unless all authors of those conversations have given their explicit permission for their emails to be distributed via the list.
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Exceed 2 MB/2,000 kB in size (this is a courtesy to people accessing the list via mobile devices using plans that have limited and often expensive downloads).
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Stray too far from our main topics: the wild birds of the Canberra/ACT region, their habitat & conservation.
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Contain abbreviations the meaning of which would not be known to most list subscribers. If abbreviations must be used, please ensure that the word or phrase is spelled out in full when it first appears. This will be of immense
assistance to people searching for content in the archive.
Subscribers who fail to comply with these rules will be suspended from the list for a period, or permanently, as determined by COG’s Executive.
COG’s Committee reminds subscribers that COG (as the list owner), as well as the authors of any defamatory messages distributed by the list, could both be found liable in any legal action for defamation.
All emails distributed via the list are archived at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds . The archive contains a search facility. It is a condition of list membership that you agree that emails that you send to the list address for distribution are publicly available in the archive.
Please note that email addresses in the archive’s contents are masked so that they cannot be harvested by spammers and others.
Capturing bird observation records
Please note that reports of bird sightings sent to the CanberraBirds list are not captured in any birding records databases. If you have a record that should be deposited in COG’s database, and thereby included in COG’s Annual Bird Report and the Atlas of Living
Australia, please fill in one of the record forms found at COG’s website
http://canberrabirds.org.au/MapsFormsLists/MapsFormsLists_Forms.htm , submit it via eBird Australia
http://ebird.org/content/australia/ or via Birdlife Australia’s Birdata
http://birdata.com.au .
Subscribing and unsubscribing are easy:
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To subscribe, send an empty email to with the word ‘Subscribe’ in the subject line.
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To unsubscribe, send an empty email to with the word ‘Unsubscribe’ in the subject line.
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Once subscribed, to send an email to the list, address it to
Other information can be found by emailing with the word ‘Help’ in the subject line.
For any assistance, please contact David McDonald, who manages the CanberraBirds list on behalf of COG’s Committee of Management, email
or phone David at 0416 231 890.
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David McDonald
Canberra Ornithologists Group email lists manager
1004 Norton Road, Wamboin, NSW 2620, Australia
Mobile: 0416 231 890 | Tel: (02) 6238 3706
E-mail:
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