The Oriental Bird Club (OBC) is a UK-based club which exists since March 1985 to advance ornithology in the Oriental zoogeographical region. Its aims are to encourage an interest in wild birds of the Oriental region and their conservation, promote the work of regional bird and nature societies, and to collate and publish information on Oriental birds.
The OBC's geographical area of interest ranges from the Indus River, Pakistan, in the west, through India and south-east Asia to Wallace's line, eastern Indonesia, in the east, and from Mongolia, north-east Russia (east of 90°E), and Japan in the north, to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south. This vast area embraces tropical and temperate forests, outstanding wetlands, and grasslands providing habitat for over 2800 bird species, many of them little known.
Another important function of the growing membership of the OBC is that it helps to amplify and collectively express opinions on important issues such as those connected with conservation, in the oriental region.
Read more about Oriental Bird Club: Oriental Bird Images, OrientalBirding, Projects Funded By The OBC Conservation Fund in 2011, Publications
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