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

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[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