Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. Indigenous Knowledges, Birds that have 'Spoken' and Science
2. Ethno-Ornithology and Conservation
3. The Broader Significance of Ethno-Ornithology
Part II: Birds: Hunting and Products
4. The Maori and the Huia
5. Santa Cruz Red Feather Currency And The Scarlet Honeyeater
6. Entrapment Of Wetland Birds: Local Customs And Methods Of Hunting In Central Java
7. Wildlife Hunting and Bird Trade in Northern Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia
Part III: Birds and Knowledge
8. Transmutation of Human Knowledge about Birds in 16th Century Honduras
9. Sound, Sight, Stories and Science: Avoiding Pitfalls in Ethno-Ornithological Research, with Examples from Kenya
10. What the Locals Know: Comparing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge of Megapodes in Melanesia
Part IV: Birds: Story and Language
11. The Birds and Nature in the Stepwells of Gujarat, Western India
12. Aboriginal Stories: The Riches and Colour of Australian Birds
13. Tlingit Birds, an annotated list with a statistical comparative analysis
14. Raven=Heron in Mayan-Language Prehistory: An Ethno-Ornithological/Linguistic Study
15. What's in a Bird Name: Relationships among Ethno-Ornithological Terms in Nage and other Malayo-Polynesian Languages
Part V: Birds and Conservation
16. An Alternate Reality: Maori Spiritual Guardianship of New Zealand's Native Birds
17. Everyone Loves Birds: Using Indigenous Knowledge of Birds to Facilitate Conservation in New Guinea
18. Birds, People and Conservation in Kenya
19. Bird Messengers for all Seasons: Landscapes of Knowledge among the BriBri of Costa Rica
20. The Bull of the Bog: Bittern Conservation Practice in a Western Bio-cultural Setting
21. Towards an Indonesian bird conservation ethos: reflections from a study of bird-keeping in the cites of Java and Bali