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Fwd: [OB] new online reference library for birds of Nepal

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Subject: Fwd: [OB] new online reference library for birds of Nepal
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:44:42 +1000
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 

Sent from my iPad

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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 conservation is hidden away in old, out-of-print publications and unpublished 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 Just to let you know that our unpublished bird references are now available 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
> 
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