News from the Qatar Bird Club
The Qatar Bird Club is a separate organization from the QNHG. Since they do not have a website, we post notices from them here.
General Meeting, Sunday 22 May 2011, 7:00 pm , Friends of Environment Center (FEC)
The Qatar Bird Club (a separate organization from the QNHG) invites QNHG members to their Membership General Meeting. Agenda items include the Club Report (achievements, issues, and future plans), adoption of Club bylaws (click here to view), and election of 2011-2012 Executive Committee (4 vacancies to be filled). Interested members can be nominated for election. For more information, contact qatarbirdproject@gmail.com
Qatar Bird Club, founded in November 2008, extends a cordial invitation to all QNHG members to attend a meeting at the Friends of the Environment Center [FEC], near Sports Roundabout. [The FEC building is set well back from the street, behind a wall and is not immediately evident.] For directions click here for a location map or email Reem Said on qatarbirdproject@gmail.com or call her on 5856913.
Join the Qatar Birding Listserv
A listserv of this type is a good means of reporting your bird sightings to other interested birders, of archiving your bird reports, of announcing events of interest to Qatar birders and of discussing questions of interest to the members of the group. Anyone can read the messages and anyone can join the listserv. Only members of the list can post messages, and only members can review the list of other members.
QBC Newsletter
Volume 2
Number 1 - October 2010: Click here for the newsletter.
Volume 1
Number 3 - May 2010: Why we watch birds, International Day for Biodiversity, WorldBirds - an Internet based bird-recording system for Qatar, June Meeting announcement, Photography, Slender-billed curlew identification, Orlotan bunting in gastronomy, Greening of Qatar, Bird books, Non-avian species on recent field trips, Logo of Qatar Bird Project, Children's page, About Sayed Malawi, Farewell from Gordon Saunders. Click here for the newsletter.Number 2 - April 2010: World Migratory Bird Day, CITES conference, UNESCO, Photo competition, Birding tales of Al Andalus, Endangered birds of the Middle East, Birds and climate change, Bird ID, Children's page, Wings of Qatar exhibit, Darwin's finch and the evolution of smell, Birding sites at Ras Al Shindwee and Al Ruwais, Photographer: John A. Thompson and monthly bird talk. Click here for the newsletter.
Number 1 - Inaugural Qatar Bird Club Newsletter: Protection of the Chagos, Why ravens roost, Biodiversity conservation, The Hima Fund, How to choose binoculars, Children's page, Bird watching in Rawdat, Qatarbirding listerv, and monthly birdwalks. Click here for the newsletter.
Thanks, and have a great day.
Best regards,
Reem Said
Assistant Director, Qatar Bird Project
phone + 974 487 4725 + 974 487 4725
mobile + 974 585 6913 + 974 585 6913
fax + 974 487 7301
email qatarbirdproject@gmail.com