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Since our inception in 1991, Ornifolks have staged over two dozen
international birding trips. We've tried to keep notes on our
adventures and have compiled many trip reports, and even a few tapes of bird
recordings.
TRIP REPORTS
Ornifolks makes available to its members and participants trip reports, which
include itineraries, diaries, and species lists. Where information is not
sensitive or proprietary, we often include maps and detailed directions to specific sites.
We do this so that
 | birders can gain from what we have learned when we visited these sites,
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| we can return the favor to our local ground agents who are often
struggling to survive in an emerging (and often over-rated) eco-tourism
industry. |
Reports are printed on legal-size paper, and folded into a booklet with 4 pages
to a sheet. They are distributed with the intent of generating interest
for members to visit sites.
I have published ten reports recently in MS Publisher Ô
format which can be distilled into Adobe
PDF format and sent to members as an attached e-mail file. These reports, which
can be up to 120 pages in length, generally can be distilled into a 400 K PDF
file and transmitted (via a 28.8 K modem) in a few minutes. They would be read
from the member’s monitor or printed on your printer on legal-sized in
landscape, 2-sided format (four pages per sheet).
Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free from their website at
www.Adobe.com.
Trip reports generally include an itinerary, a diary, a section on special
species, and the trip species list table with dates as columns. When species
location information is not sensitive or proprietary, maps are included.
The ten reports which are currently available in PDF format are:
| Colima (Mexico) 1994, MAE, 307K, 14pp |
| Bolivia 1997, Sherri LaBar, 246K, 24pp |
| Cuba & the Dominican 1999, Guy Kirwan, 344K 10pp |
| Indonesia (N Sulawesi, Halmahera, Batanta, Salawati, Vogelkop & Biak)
1996, Todd Mark, 1,609K 34pp |
| Madagascar 1999, MAE, 295K 20pp |
| Maranon (NW Peru) 1996, Barry Walker, 346K 14pp |
| SW Cape Africa 1999, MAE, 310K 18pp |
| SE Brazil 1998, GMK & MAE, 729K 60pp |
| Scotland, Chris Bradshaw, 1999, 12 pp. |
| Turkey, Guy Kirwan, 1999, 24 pp |
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TAPES
We've begun making cassette tapes available after certain
trips. The tapes vary in quality, but generally they are recorded with a
Sennheiser shotgun microphone with a Sony TCM-5000 monaural recorder. Please
inquire as to price and availability, if interested.
  
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