BirdingASIA 7

CONTENTS

A photoshot odyssey through the confused avian taxonomy of Seram and Buru (southern Moluccas) FRANK E. RHEINDT & ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON

Identification of Asian Glaucidium owlets MATHIAS RITSCHARD & MANUEL SCHWEIZER

Records of White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India GOPINATHAN MAHESWARAN

Range extension of Rusty-bellied Shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra in Sikkim, India BHOJ KUMAR ACHARYA & LALITHA VIJAYAN

Sumatran Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx viridis seen in the wild for the first time NICK BRICKLE

Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus back from the dead PHILIP D. ROUND & PETER R. KENNERLEY

Indian Blue Robin BirdingASIA 7 cover © Niranjan Sant

Bali Myna Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi takes flight to Nusa Penida GODI DIJKMAN

Sewri Bay, Thane Creek, Mumbai, India TIM WOODWARD

Birds nesting in Balochistan province, Pakistan: a memoir in photographs TOM J. ROBERTS

Conservation of the critically endangered east Asian population of Dalmatian Pelican Pelecan crispus in western Mongolia NAYAMBAYAR BATBAYAR, AXEL BRÄUNLICH, TSEVEENMYADAG NATSAGDORJ, SHAR SETEV & GANTOGS SOVD

On the trail of the Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum in north-east India SIMON ALLEN & MIKE CATSIS

The endangered Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush Myophonus blighi eats an endangered lizard A. A. THASUN AMARASINGHE, D. M. S. SURANJAN KARUNARATHNA & DEEPAL WARAKAGODA

First record of Sooty Gull Larus hemprichii in eastern India ARUNAYAN SHARMA & CHRISTOPH ZÖCKLER

Christmas Island Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi: first confirmed observation for Vietnam NICO VROMANT & NGUYEN THI HOAI CHAU

Bristled Grassbird Chaetornis striatus in Corbett National Park, India MANOJ SHARMA

Plus regular sections: Letter from the Chairman, OBC in action: Conservation Fund, Smythies Fund, From the Field, Reviews.

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