Les Rance, Editor, The Parrot Society UK | www.theparrotsocietyuk.org


his is now the thirty sixth edition of Bird Scene, so we are now well into the fifth year of the life of this on-line magazine, the first FREE on-line bird magazine produced in the UK. At 48 pages this is quite a big read! From a technical point publishing on the net allows us to use images that are too small to print in a paper magazine. For on-line publishing we can work at a picture resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi) whereas if we want to reproduce an image in our monthly Parrot Society magazine we have to work at 300 dpi, over 4 times the resolution. Also the images do appear brighter as can be seen in this issue where the Blue-eared Glossy Starling looks as though it could leap out of the page! Every time we post the Parrot Society magazine I cringe at the cost and after the recent changes when postal costs increased further the distribution expenses have become very costly, I just do not know how smaller clubs with limited funds will be able to continue printing a member’s magazine, maybe E-magazines are the way to go? As a result of increases to


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the costs of both postage and printing I am really pleased that we decided to produce Bird Scene as a FREE e-magazine. We have learnt a great deal over the last four years about this way of communicating with bird enthusiasts and I am sure that this knowledge will become more and more valuable as we see further increases in costs associated to paper magazines. Regular readers will know that Bird Scene has been produced to publicise The National Exhibition held each year at our October Sale Day/Show and to promote our Conservation efforts for threatened parrots in the wild. Previous editions are still to be found in an archive at the foot of the Home Page of our website and if you would like to see earlier versions then do please visit the Bird Scene archive at www.theparrotsocietyuk.org. In this edition we have an excellent article on the work being carried out in Costa Rica to re-establish the beautiful Scarlet Macaw in that country by Dr Chris Vaughan, this work is aiming at the school children of that country in an attempt to educate them about eco Tourism and the value that Scarlet


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