Club news - events, sponsors and requests
updated 17 January 2008
OBC Tours to Tibet and Cambodia
These trips are already booked for 2008.
If you would be interested in taking part in a similar tours
in 2009, please contact Mike Edgecombe via mail@orientalbirdclub.org.
BirdFair 2008, Rutland Water, near Oakham, Rutland, UK.
OBC will
again have a stall at British Birdfair 2008, Rutland Water, near
Oakham, Rutland, UK on Friday 15 to Sunday 17 August
2008. The fair is a great opportunity to meet friends and Council
members at the OBC stand. Overseas visitors are particularly
welcome.
24th OBC Annual General Meeting in Cambridge, UK
The 24th OBC Annual General Meeting will be held in Cambridge,
U on Saturday 8 November 2008. Further details will be published
nearer the event time.
Sponsorship
We are delighted to welcome Carl Zeiss Ltd as a Corporate Sponsor
and hope this is the beginning of a long relationship. Not only
did they provide the top prize for the annual draw, but also
stepped in to sponsor the Forktail-Zeiss award and the Club also
benefits from their bursary that helps to defray the cost of
the stand at the Birdfair.
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.
OBC Membership
For
the eleventh year, subscription rates remain the same! Ordinary
membership was raised to £15 in 1997 and we have been able
to hold them at the same rate ever since, even though the standard,
content and size of both our publications has risen considerably
in the meantime! There are several reasons for this, one of which
is the increasing membership. Today our membership stands at 2,026.
All members can help to promote the Club - when you visit the
region take along a copy of BirdingASIA - there are still people
out there who have never heard of the Club! The more members we
have, the better value for money we can deliver!
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 was launched in late 1991.
The scheme basically allows donors of significant funds (normally £500
or more) to use the Club's Forktail logo on promotional literature
etc. Corporate Sponsors are also listed on the inside
front cover of the Bulletin. Currently they include: Asia
Ecological Consultants, Avifauna, Birdquest,
BirdTourASIA,
Carl Zeiss Ltd,
Club 300, Limosa,
Rockjumper
Birding Tours, Sunbird, The
Bagh Resort, Wildsounds,
and Wildwings.
Over the years whilst many sponsors have continued to make donations
to the Club, a number of them have not, but no formal approach has
been made to either extend or terminate the relationship. Led by
Promotions Officer Mike Edgecombe, Council has now commenced a review
of the scheme. Organisations who have not made donations for several
years have been contacted with a view to renewing their sponsorship.
In the meantime they have not been listed in this Bulletin. We look
forward to welcoming them back to the scheme in the very near future.
We are of course very interested to hear from members who may have
some influence in their companies when it comes to charitable donations.
If you may be able to help, please contact Mike Edgecombe at mail@orientalbirdclub.
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, Flamingo
Tours and Travels, Tom Gullick, Jetwing
Eco Holidays, Kadoorie
Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation, International
Taiwan Birding Association, Jungle
Lodges & Resorts
Lt, Lama
Parivar, Limosa
Holidays, Lynx
Edicions, Murphy's
Wildlife Holidays, Nature
Safari Pvt Ltd, Naturetrek, Rockjumper
Birding Tours, Subbuteo
Natural History Books, Taiwan
International Birding Assn, 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 2005.
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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