BirdingASIA 11 June 2009: contents

• SPECIAL REPORT Oriental Galliformes—emblems of Asia’s natural treasure
  PHILIP McGOWAN
  18
• PIONEER OF ASIAN ORNITHOLOGY Gerd Heinrich
  N. J. COLLAR
  33
• 25th ANNIVERSARY REPORT Lost, found and saved—OBC conservation: the next 25 years
  NIGEL J. COLLAR & BRIAN R. SYKES
  41
• ASIAN ENIGMA Is Vaurie’s Nightjar Caprimulgus centralasicus a valid species?
  PAUL J. LEADER
  47
• ID FORUM Fire-tailed Sunbirds Aethopyga ignicauda in north-west Thailand and notes on their identification
  PHILIP D. ROUND & AKALAK KUNSORN
  51
• ID FORUM Notes on the status and identification of the Silvery Pigeon Columba argentina
  YONG DING LI
  53
• BIRDING HOTSPOT Flores and Komodo: two islands of Northern Nusa Tenggara
  ATTILA SIMAY, TAMAS ZALAI & ZOLTAN ECSEDI
  59
• OBCs 25th ANNIVERSARY PHOTOSPOT SPECIAL
  64
• BIRD TO WATCH Observations of Milky Storks Mycteria cinerea in Percut, North Sumatra, Indonesia
  CHRIS R. SHEPHERD & GIYANTO
  70
• BIRD TO WATCH A note on the breeding success of Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea in 2008, South Sumatra province, Indonesia and more on its diet
  MUHAMMAD IQBAL, FADLY TAKARI, HERI MULYONO & RASAM
  73
  

• BIRD TO WATCH Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer reappears in Singapore after a 27-year break
  TAN GIM CHEONG
  75
• BIRD TO WATCH Return of the Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon: a reintroduction programme in Shaanxi province, China
  YU XIAO-PING, CHANG XIU-YUN, LI XIA, CHEN WEN-GUI & SHI LIANG
  80
• REDISCOVERY Worcester’s Buttonquail Turnix worcesteri rediscovered at Dalton Pass
  DESMOND ALLEN
  83
• SPECIAL REPORT An emerging Asian taste for owls? Enforcement agency seizes 1,236 owls and other wildlife in Malaysia
  CHRIS R. SHEPHERD & LORETTA ANN SHEPHERD
  85
• BIRDS AND PEOPLE The Demoiselle Cranes Grus virgo of Kheechan, Rajasthan, India
  ANANDA BANERJEE
  87
  BIRDS AND PEOPLE Nesting of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in northern Thailand
  RATTANAWAT CHAIYARAT, WITTAYA KAEWSRI, AREERAK DARAVIROJ & SUPHAT PRASOPSIN
  90
• PROJECT REPORT The Javan Hawk Eagle Spizaetus bartelsi: observations on a breeding pair and concerns for its future
  ADAM A. SUPRIATNA
  93
• FIELD STUDY Observations at a nest of Malayan Whistling Thrush Myophonus robinsoniin the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
  ALLAN TEO & Y. C. WEE
  95
• NOTEBOOK The Blue-eared Barbet Megalaima australis and its gular sac
  ADRIAN T. H. LIM, L. K. WANG & Y. C. WEE
  98
• NOTEBOOK Observation of the mobbing of a Javan Hawk Eagle Spizaetus bartelsi by an Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN
  102
• NOTEBOOK First record of Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans in Malaysia
  LIM KIM CHYE & LIM SWEE YIAN
  103
• NOTEBOOK The juvenile plumage and vocalisations of Giant Scops Owl Mimizuku gurneyi
  SIMON HARRAP
  104
• NOTEBOOK Observations of a nesting Large Frogmouth Batrachostomus auritus in Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia
  JOHN WRIGHT
  105
• NOTEBOOK Grey-necked Bunting Emberiza buchanani: first record for Vietnam and South-East Asia
  JOHN WRIGHT
  106
• NOTEBOOK The “Fly the Vulture Home” project
  SIMON RODDIS
  107
• PHOTOSPOT SPECIAL An Odyssey in search of little-known Indonesian birds
  118
• PHOTOSPOT Caught on camera in the field
  125
• OBITUARY Ravi Sankaran—a life of courage and conviction
  T. R. SHANKAR RAMAN & DIVYA MUDAPPA
  126

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