Tim
I'm sorry that AG didn't acknowledge you. As a biological/cross-cultural
consultant I am often asked to "help out" media organisations.
Unfortunately, in my experience, too many behave in this way. And it's not
just the publishing companies.
One of the worst was a Hollywood bunch attached to one of the big film
companies for whom my Indigenous relatives and I organised a trip. Never
heard another thing. My relatives in particular were not happy.
Even little things can be important. There was the American herpetologist
who accompanied us out to Baby Dreaming, and promised us a CD of the
reptiles he photographed. It never arrived. That was years ago and my
relatives still remember. He has rather spoiled things for other scientists
who may wish to work out there.
My thanks for putting AG onto me. Apart from any other benefits I was able
to meet up with photographer David Hancock whom I hadn't seen in many years.
Kind regards
Denise
on 17/4/08 12:43 PM, Tim Dolby at wrote:
>
> To be quite honest the 'bird' edition of Australian Geographic is
> problematic in many ways.
>
> For example (without wanting to sound narcissistic) I personally helped
> Australian Geographic out with 2 of the 'bird' articles that appeared in
> the journal, spending considerable time and effort doing so. (I should
> send them my phone bill to the Northern Territory.) I even had to put up
> with a photographer following me around for 2 days. Yet I received no
> acknowledgment or thanks for this.
>
> Further, in one of the articles (the one about the twitchathon) they'd
> planned to interview me for details. However, because I was away the day
> that they rang, they interviewed someone who had nothing to do with the
> twitchathon, named them, and then gave them my BA Vic 'description
> title' ("Twitchathon Convenor"). This was despite the fact that they
> later showed me an 'edit' copy, which I then corrected for them.
>
> Tim Dolby
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 10:32 AM
> To: Gary Davidson; birding-aus
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] scientific nomenclature
>
> Why don't you email them and ask them why?
>
> If found this little discussion about the problem:
> http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v100n04/p1003-p1004.pdf
> from 1983. They suggest that journals that don't deal specifically with
> birds tend to apply the same capiltalisation rules as they do for
> animals.
>
> I'm not fussed which way it's done, despite the advantages of "our" way,
> so long as everyone does it the same way, which they never will. I'm
> sticking with our way until the field guides and check lists change.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> wrote on Thursday, 17 April 2008 12:32
> AM:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: on behalf of Gary Davidson
> Sent: Thu 4/17/2008 12:31 AM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] scientific nomenclature
>
> There was a thread a while ago about scientifc journals not using
> capital letters for bird names. At the time there was a lot of
> criticism of the American journals for adopting this policy. I note
> with interest that the latest edition of Australian Geographic has an
> article on birds that also does not use capitals. This is apparently a
> world-wide(?) problem.
> Gary
>
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