BirdingASIA 25

Contents

Chairman's letterBirdingASIA briefingsLetters to the EditorsReviewsOBC in Action – Conservation Fund & Bertrand Smythies Fund

CONSERVATION
The Beijing Cuckoo Project

NEWSFLASH
Spoon-billed Sandpiper: ups and downs in 2016 COMPILED BY BRIAN SYKES

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Taking the high road to Lina’s ANDREW R. COLLINS

CONSERVATION ALERT
Snapshot of an on-going trade: an inventory of birds for sale in Chatuchak weekend market, Bangkok, Thailand SERENE C. L. CHNG & JAMES A. EATON

CONSERVATION ALERT
Predators become prey! Can Indonesian raptors surviveonline bird trading? MUHAMMAD IQBAL

NOTEBOOK
A probable hybrid Azure Tit Cyanistes cyanus ~ Great Tit Parus majorin Mongolia THOMAS HALLFARTH

NOTEBOOK
First summer record of juvenile Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernisptilorhynchus orientalis in South-East Asia ANGUS LAMONT

NOTEBOOK
Breeding records of the Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosaceafrom Karimunjawa National Park, Central Java, Indonesia IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN, HARY SUSANTO & WASKITO KUKUH WIBOWO

NOTEBOOK
Siberian Crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus numbers on the increase atMuraviovka Park, Far East Russia MARTIN SUANJAK & WIELAND HEIM

NOTEBOOK
Recent records from Bhutan, including the first records of Black-neckedGrebe Podiceps nigricollis and Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta JOSH ENGEL

PHOTOSPOT
Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus

BIRDWATCHERS IN ACTION
The status and distribution of Changeable Hawk EagleNisaetus cirrhatus in Singapore KOK HUI TAN

BIRDWATCHERS IN ACTION
An avian feeding guild exploits the fruit of Ilexumbellulata at Kaptai National Park, Bangladesh MD. SHARIF HOSSAIN SOURAV

ID FORUM
The enigmatic plumage of two Daurian Redstarts Phoenicurus auroreus atthe Vankee development, Shanghai, China ANGUS LAMONT

RANGE EXTENSION
Recent range expansion of the Brown-headed Thrush Turduschrysolaus onto the Kamchatka peninsula, Russia VLADIMIR YU. ARKHIPOV

REDISCOVERY
First Jankowski’s Buntings Emberiza jankowskii wintering in Beijingfor 75 years XING CHAO, HUANG MUJIAO, PAUL HOLT, TERRY TOWNSHEND & BEN WIELSTRA

REDISCOVERY
Rediscovery of the Critically Endangered Slender-billed Vulture Gypstenuirostris in Bangladesh A. B. M. SAROWAR ALAM, SAKIB AHMED & RASEL AHAMMED

INTRODUCED SPECIES
Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar, a new species forKalimantan, Borneo MUHAMMAD IQBAL, PANDJI IRAWAN, AHMAD FAUZI & INNAL RAHMAN

INTRODUCED SPECIES
First record of Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri forIndonesia HASRI ABDILLAH & MUHAMMAD IQBAL

INTRODUCED SPECIES
First record of Javan Munia Lonchura leucogastroides for Borneo ARIL MAGDA PRAWIRA & MUHAMMAD IQBAL

NOTEBOOK
The little-known, confusing calls of Black Partridge Melanoperdix niger BAS VAN BALEN & JOHANNES H. FISCHER

NOTEBOOK
A Collared Owlet Glaucidium brodiei makes a meal of a Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea DIBYENDU ASH

NOTEBOOK
Mimicry of Sri Lanka Crested Drongo Dicrurus lophorinus by Fork-tailed Drongo Cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides GABRIEL A. JAMIE & GEHAN DE SILVA WIJEYERATNE

NOTEBOOK
Glossy Swiftlet Collocalia esculenta exhibiting signs of the pigmentdeficiency ‘dilution’ JOHANNES H. FISCHER & ANNA VAN DER KAADEN

NOTEBOOK
First description of the song of Yellow-throated LaughingthrushGarrulax (Dryonastes) galbanus, Nagaland, north-east India DAVID P. EDWARDS, JOLI BORAH & JAMES A. EATON

SPECIAL REPORT
Atlas Burung Indonesia: a national bird atlas project for the world’slargest archipelago IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN, NURDIN SETIO BUDI, RUDYANTO, KARYADI BASKORO, MUHAMMAD IQBAL & ADE RAHMAT

Little-known Asian bird
Breeding record of Pygmy Blue Flycatcher Muscicapella hodgsoni from the Central Highlands of Vietnam LE MANH HUNG

Asian enigma
Recent records of the enigmatic Endangered White-rumpedWoodpecker Meiglyptes tristis in East Java province, Indonesia AGUNG SIH KURNIANTO, PUJI FIRMANSYAH & NIA KURNIAWAN

LITTLE-KNOWN AREA

A survey of breeding waterbird communities on lakes and otherwaterbodies on the middle reaches of the Amur River valley near Blagoveshensk, Amurprovince, Far East Russia WIELAND HEIM

Caught on camera in the field

COUNTRY FIRSTS
First record of the Vulnerable Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga for Sri Lanka SUDHEERA BANDARA, ASHOK AMARASENA, ISURU RANASINGHE & SADEEPA GUNAWARDANA

Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: the firstrecord for India C. SIVAPERUMAN, G. GOKULAKRISHNAN, J. DINESH & P. C. RASMUSSEN

The first documented record of Tibetan Lark Melanocorypha maxima for Nepal NARESH KUSI & GERALDINE WERHAHN

First record of Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha for Lao PDR CAMILLE N. Z. COUDRAT & CHANTHALAPHONE NANTHAVONG

The first authenticated record of Richard’s Pipit Anthus richardi in Singapore ANGUS LAMONT

The first records of Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata for Cambodia MATTHEW NUTTALL, DANIEL WILLCOX, NUT MENGHOR, SENG RATTANAK & MARKUS HANDSCHUH

First record of Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis for Russia ALEXANDER HELLQUIST & ANDREY SEMENOV

Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus: first record for Timor-Leste IAN DE LA ROSA, RICK JACOBSEN, LEONIE VENROIJ & COLIN R. TRAINOR

Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis: first unequivocal record for Cambodia SIMON P. MAHOOD

The first documented record of Northern Boobook Ninox japonica in Cambodia SIMON P. MAHOOD

From the field

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