BRITISH BIRDWATCHING FAIR

Accommodation
Grove House
Phone 01572 722814
E-mail rutlandbedandbreakfast@yahoo.co.uk
Bed and Breakfast, 3 double rooms, within minutes of Rutland Water and Egleton Bird Watching Sanctuary. A short stroll from Oakham Railway Station. Contact Barbara Watt for current rates.

BIRD CLUBS

Oriental Bird Club
The Oriental Bird Club is for birders and ornithologists around the world who are interested in birds of the Oriental region and their conservation. Its aims are to encourage an interest in wild birds of the Oriental region and their conservation, to promote the work of regional bird and nature societies and to collate and publish information on Oriental birds. 

Link  www.orientalbirdclub.org

BIRDING WEB SITES

Birds and Birding in India
Managed by Vivek Tiwari who also manages an e-mail discussion group on the Natural History of the Inidan Subcontinent

Link  http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~vivek/indian-birds.html

Fatbirder
Fatbirder strives to be the web`s greatest resource about birds for birders, getting around 1 million hits a month. 

Link http://www.fatbirder.com/

Where do you want to go birding today?
Tina MacDonald's comprehensive site of trip reports and other birding factoids.

Link   http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/


GuidedBirdwatching

www.guidedbirdwatching.com/

E-DISCUSSION GROUPS

Birds and Birding in India
Managed by Vivek Tiwari who also manages an e-mail discussion group on the Natural History of the Inidan Subcontinent

Link   http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~vivek/indian-birds.html

Oriental Birding e-group 
OrientalBirding e-mail discussion group is managed in association with Oriental Bird Club. 
OrientalBirding is an on-line forum for news and discussion about wild birds, birding and conservation in the Oriental region.

Link   http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/directory/orientalbirding.html 

Fauna Sri Lanka
Fauna of Sri Lanka is an email discussion group on the taxonomy and systematics of the animals of Sri Lanka. It aims to facilitate communication among individuals engaged in taxonomic research on all groups of Sri Lankan animals, invertebrates and vertebrates, terrestrial, freshwater and marine, both free-living and parasitic. Requests and announcements regarding specific taxa, as well as matters of general interest and concern regarding biodiversity research and the promotion of taxonomic research on the fauna of Sri Lanka, are all suitable subjects for this group.

Link   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/faunasrilanka/message/16


NATURAL HISTORY ORGANISATIONS

Taprobanica Nature Conservation Society

Taprobanica Nature Conservation Society (TNCS) of Srilanka is an Independent, non-governmental non-profit oriented voluntary Organization dedicated to promoting research, public awareness and nature conservation and it was established in 2007. Taprobanica, the journal of south Asian Biodiversity is the official journal of the TNCS of Srilanka. It publishes original reseach papers and taxonomic descriptions, notes, observations, eassays, opinions and short communications with emphasis on behaviour, conservation breeding, conservation, ecology, geology, evolution, morphology, physiology and systematic.

Link http://www.taprobanica.lk


PHOTOGRAPHY

ARKive
A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species.

Link http://www.arkive.org/


PUBLISHERS

A&C Black (includes titles from Christopher Helm and Pica Press)
Following the merger with Pica Press, A&C Black now has the largest ornithological titles list, in the world. 

Link   http://www.acblack.com/Department/default.asp?dept_id=2

New Holland Publishers
New Holland is a publishing house dedicated to the highest editorial and design standards and there are few countries in the world where their books are not bought and sold.

Link http://www.newhollandpublishers.com/html/natural_history.html

Oxford University Press
OUP is one of the leading publishers in the world. They publish a broad range of natural history and ornithological titles.

Link   http://www.oup.co.uk/academic/science/ornithology/

Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka

The Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka is a non-profit organization dedicated to the scientific exploration and documentation of Sri Lanka's biodiversity.  The Trust operates almost entirely on revenue from its book and magazine-publishing activity. The publishing arm of the Trust, WHT Publications (Pvt) Limited, is Sri Lanka's leading natural history publishing house. In addition to books on various aspects of Sri Lanka's biodiversity, the company also publishes a peer-reviewed periodical, the Journal of South Asian Natural History.

Link  http://www.wht.org/publications/books/books.html


SRILANKAN LUXURY ACCOMODATION

Link www.srilankaluxury.com 

WILDLIFE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

Alana Ecology
The Old Primary School, Church Street, Bishop's Castle
Shropshire, SY9 5AE, United Kingdom.
Telephone +44 (0)1588 630173.
Fax +44 (0)1588 630176 
E-mail info@alanaecology.com
www.alanaecology.com

Alana Ecology was formed in 1996 in the Shropshire market town of Bishop's Castle. It started life by marketing bat detectors and bat boxes but now supply many thousands of product lines to a wide range of customers who are professionally involved in wildlife and ecological research or who have a general interest in wildlife conservation.

Biota
Ascot Court, 71-73 Middlewich Road, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 7BP.
Telephone 01606 333296.
Mobile 07711 025489.
Fax 01606 333297
Email info@biota.co.uk 
www.biota.co.uk

Biota supply a range of moth traps, moth trap components, torches, nest boxes, bat boxes, insect boxes and clearwing pheromones. They also supply components to construct moth traps and can supply other items of survey equipment.


Trifid Optical Supplies
No.299, Lorong Polis, Pandamaran, 42000 Port Klang
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Telephone +6-03-31653906
Mobile +6-016-2985801
Email info@trifid-optics.com
www.trifid-optics.com

Trifid Optical Supplies is an authorized distributor of Vixen, Omicron, Pentax, Coronado, Atik, Manfrotto, Antares, Takahashi, Canon, Swarovski, , TMB, Astrotech, Carl Zeiss LensCoat, Visual Echoes, Watec, telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, accessories.  and many more.