From NALINM@AOL.COM Thu Aug 26 17:08:28 2004 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:22:00 EDT From: NALINM@AOL.COM To: nathistory-india@Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: Global Owl Project FWD - Info for anyone interested in Owls ------------------------ [Asian-raptors] Owl species and subspecies citations and descriptions - on the web Date: 8/23/04 2:16:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: zoolit@hotmail.com (Jevgeni Shergalin) Reply-to: Asian-raptors@yahoogroups.com Dear Global Owl Project team members, associates, and friends, During the last several months, Alan Sieradzki (UK), Paul Radley (USA), Deane Lewis (Australia), myself, and a smattering of you all, have been working on Task 4 of the Global Owl Project http://globalowlproject.com/ Our efforts have focused on assembling the list of citations reflecting the current extant owl species and subspecies, as they were newly described to science. The web page for these citations can be found at http://www.globalowlproject.com/citations This first step reflected the assembly of the citations ... some 850 or more of them. Our next step involves acquiring a physical, clean, hardcopy of these documents. We are involved in that process now, and perhaps have 70-80 or so of them in hand. Once acquired, we are scanning them into .pdf format, and Deane is loading them onto the same website ... For those publications written in Dutch, French, German, etc., we are planning on having them translated into English, and then posting both versions (original and translated) on the web. The idea here is that readers can thus locate all of the owl description documents, and actually read (or download) a copy of them. This is a big job, but an important one as we go about straightening out the complex taxonomy of the owls, in conjunction with Task 2 (Phylogeny and Taxonomy via DNA work). Please share with me my heartfelt thanks to Alan, Paul, Deane and others that have been working very hard on making this excellent bit of work come together. Please look over the website, and let me know what you think of it. Any corrections to be made? Suggestions for other improvements? Sorry for any cross-postings. Please feel free to forward this email to interested others, or link to our Global Owl Project web site. Most sincerely, David David H. Johnson 6504 Carriage Drive Alexandria, Virginia 22310 USA djowl@aol.com 202-360-0313 cell www.globalowlproject.com