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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 coverage 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. The Oriental Bird Club is a UK registered charity number 297242. ==Oriental Bird Images== ( Oriental Bird Images ) (OBI) is a collection of images of birds of the oriental region that are collated into a database called The Image Database of the Oriental Bird Club. The database is an initiative of the ( Oriental Bird Club (OBC) ) that was begun in mid-2002. The effort is to build as complete a website database as possible of photographs of bird species found in the Oriental Region. All images in the Database have been provided by the photographers free-of-charge in furtherance of the aims of the OBC. The photographers retain the copyright to their images. As of 29 June 2015, the Database reached a new milestone with the addition of its 100,000th image - a very fine photo of a Bar-headed Goose by regular contributor Sunil Singhal. The Database now displays photographic images of 99% of all the bird species known from the Oriental Region. This huge collection happened due to all the photographers who contributed their images to OBI since its inception in 2002. The images are proving to be a useful reference tool for ornithologists and birders. About 1600 photographers have contributed to the database. (Source: ( OBI website )). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oriental Bird Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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