Club news - events, sponsors and requests
updated 18 August 2008
24th OBC Annual General Meeting in Cambridge, UK
The 24th OBC Annual General Meeting will be held at
Wilkinson Room, St John the Evangelist, Hills Rd, Cambridge, CB2
2RN on Saturday 8 November 2008. The agenda will be published
nearer the event time.
Great value OBC
refreshments will be on sale, along with books and sound recordings
from WildSounds
and the usual OBC sales items. If any member would like a sales
stand at the AGM, please contact us at mail@orientalbirdclub.org.
OBC 25th Anniversary Dinner in 2009 in Norfolk , UK
On Saturday 31 October 2009, the Club
will hold a gala dinner to celebrate its 25th anniversary. We hope
to gather together as many members as possible, old and new, and
send out a special welcome to founder members and members who have
helped sustain the Club over the years. A venue in Norfolk has
been booked and a programme is being developed. We expect to incorporate
the 2009 AGM into the day and hope to have speakers and some events
to support the Conservation Fund. More details will follow, but
please put this date in your diary!
OBC Tour to Cambodia 2009 25 January to 7 February 2009
Following the success of the second trip to Cambodia this year, BirdtourASIA
have agreed to run another trip in 2009. See BirdtourASIA OBC
Cambodia 2008 tour report. Please contact Mike Edgecombe via mail@orientalbirdclub.org for
more information. OBC Tour to Tibet and Sichuan, China 2009
The stunningly beautiful high Tibetan Plateau of Qinghai province,
China holds some really spectacular birds. Mouth-watering species
such as Roborovski's Rosefinch, Przevalski's Redstart, Tibetan
Sandgrouse, and Kozlov's Bunting are amongst the 200 plus species
you can expect see in the company of Jesper Hornskov. Jesper, who
is probably the most experienced birder in this region, is again
running a tour in July - August 2009 to help raise funds for OBC
conservation. Please contact Mike Edgecombe
via mail@orientalbirdclub.org for
more information.
OBC Tour to Yunnan, China 2009
Jesper Hornskov has also agreed to run a trip in 2009 from late March - April,
dates to be confiremd. Please contact Mike Edgecombe via mail@orientalbirdclub.org for
more information.
Forktail back-issue papers now available online
To disseminate knowledge about oriental ornithology further, the editors of Forktail,
the Journal of Asian Ornithology, have decided to make papers from Forktail freely
available online.
Pdfs of papers and short notes for issues 13 onwards can now be
downloaded directly. Earlier issues are still being scanned and
will be added
in due course. Articles from new issues will be put online once
they are two years old.
Joining OBC remains the best way
to obtain the latest Forktail articles, and the only way to receive
OBC's superb BirdingAsia publication
twice a year.
Advertise in BirdingASIA
Council thanks all those who advertised regularly
in the OBC Bulletin and
hopes that they will continue to do so in BirdingASIA. Advertisements
help to offset production costs and benefit the Club significantly. The standard
advertisement rates [black and white] are: full page £135; half page £85; quarter page £60.
Colour advertisements are available at extra cost. For more information,
contact Richard Thomas
We offer a complete service too: we can construct adverts from
the text that you send us, and insert images and logos as required.
Alternatively, we can accept your print-ready Pagemaker, Quark
or film adverts. Pagemaker is the preferred format. Please contact
Richard Thomas, OBC Bulletin Advertising: richard.thomas@birdlife.org.uk.
OBC Corporate Sponsors
The OBC Corporate Sponsorship Scheme
has recently changed to allow companies to choose the level of
support for OBC, from £200
- £1000+ per annum. This newsletter explains the revised
levels and gives examples of how businesses have helped OBC make
a real
difference to conservation and awareness raising in the Oriental
region over the years.
Most payments are due for renewal and we hope that our past supporters
will renew for OBC’s 25th Anniversary Year. Please contact
Jo Thomas via mail@orientalbirdclub or
phone Jo on +44 (0)1480 370593.
Current and recent sponsors include: Asia
Ecological Consultants, Avifauna, Birdquest,
BirdTourASIA,
Club 300, Limosa,
London
Camera Exchange,
Rockjumper
Birding Tours, Sunbird, The
Bagh Resort, Wildsounds,
and Wildwings.
OBC Business Supporting members
The Business
Supporting membership scheme was started in 1992 and was intended
to become the backbone of the Honorary membership
fund.
Participants
in the scheme pay an annual subscription of £45 and which pays
the subscription of three honorary members. At present
Business Supporting members support about one third of the 155
honorary members.
OBC Business Supporting members currently include: Bird
Information Service, Birdquest,
BirdingEcotours, Birdwatch,
Closewatch Ltd, Tom Gullick, Jetwing
Eco Holidays, Kadoorie
Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation, International
Taiwan Birding Association, Lama
Parivar, Limosa
Holidays, Lynx
Edicions, Mountain
Trail Holidays Pvt Ltd, Murphy's
Wildlife Holidays, Naturetrek, Rockjumper
Birding Tours, Semioptera Pty Ltd, Subbuteo
Natural History Books, Victor
Emanuel Nature Tours, Wild
About India, Wildsounds,
and Wildwings.
OBC Council thanks our Business Supporting members and we look
forward
to welcoming more in the future.
OBC Supporting Members
The rest of the honorary members are paid for by the Supporting
membership scheme. In this case the members pay £25 and support
one honorary member. If they wish they may nominate a deserving
individual. Currently there are over 110 Supporting members
playing a major role in the Honorary membership fund. Join
OBC explains how to join the scheme.
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