Listservers
As a service to the global research community, the Avian Demography Unit administers
three ornithological listservers of international interest. These listservers reflect
some of the research interests represented within the ADU: queleas, seabirds and waders.
They are open to all interested subscribers, and the messages are not moderated. They
help subscribers to gather and exchange information, and to keep in contact on a
worldwide basis.
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Quelea-L serves the small scientific community with a specialist interest in
"Africa’s feathered locust", the Redbilled Quelea Quelea quelea.
This listserver is administered by Dieter Oschadleus, the SAFRING ringing coordinator.
Messages sent to quelea-L@lists.uct.ac.za
are transmitted to all the subscribers.
Photograph: H.D. Oschadleus. Flocks of Redbilled Quelea strike terror into
the hearts of small-grain farmers
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Seabird. The seabird listserver is administered by John Cooper, Coordinator of the
BirdLife International Seabird Conservation Programme. Messages sent to this listserver
are transmitted to over 800 world-wide ornithologists with an interest in seabirds.
The listserver carries much of interest for marine conservationists as well. Messages
sent to seabird@uct.ac.za are transmitted to
all the subscribers.
Photograph: L.G. Underhill. Longtailed Skua
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Waders-L. The Waders Listserver is administered by Les Underhill and Rene Navarro.
This listserver is for everyone with a particular interest in waders (i.e. shorebirds,
Charadrii). Messages sent to waders-L@uct.ac.za
are transmitted to all the subscribers. To keep spammers at bay this list is
"closed", ie. it only accepts postings from subscribers.
Photograph: L.G. Underhill. Grey Plover in breeding plumage on the Siberian
tundra. Waders-L can help track down the origins of colour-flagged birds.
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How to subscribe:
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In order to "subscribe" (a misnomer, because it is free) to one of the
listservers, send an email to majordomo@lists.uct.ac.za.
There must be just one line in the body of the message, with the word susbcribe
followed by the name of the list you wish to join and by your email address; e.g. the line
susbcribe quelea-L Joe@Bloggs.net
subscribes the address Joe@Bloggs.net to the Quelea Listserver. When you join,
a full set of instructions is emailed to you. If your email programs is set to append a "signature"
to your messages, then add a second line with the word end, this tells
Majordomo to ignore any text that follows.
Alternatively, you might want to visit the following web site
http://lists.uct.ac.za/cgi-bin/majordomo
where you can manage your subscriptions to the various UCT lists, change options,
unsubscribe, etc.
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