BirdingASIA 23

Contents

Chairman’s letter

BirdingASIA briefings

OBC in Action – Conservation Fund & Bertrand Smythies Fund

Reviews

NEWSFLASH
India: bad news

CONSERVATION ALERT
What can save the Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps? N. J. COLLAR, P. S. PATIL & G. S. BHARDWAJ
Great Indian Bustard photo gallery

ID FORUM
Flight identification and migration pattern of the Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus orientalis in southern Thailand, 2007–2014 ROBERT DECANDIDO, MARTTI SIPONEN, HENK SMIT, ANDREW PIERCE & DEBORAH ALLEN

ORIENTAL PATCH WATCH
A study of the avifauna of the Vankee development, Minhang district, Shanghai, China: June 2005 to May 2014 – Part 2: passerines ANGUS R. LAMONT

FIELD STUDY
Breeding Siberian Crane Leucogeranus leucogeranus and Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii in northern Yakutia, Russia JOCHEN TAMM

NOTEBOOK
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis in the British Indian Ocean Territory: where did Pinky come from? PETER CARR

NOTEBOOK
Nesting Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India BISWAPRIYA RAHUT

NOTEBOOK
Does the Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis have a future in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh? GIRIDHAR MALLA, PAROMITA RAY, PRIYAMVADA BAGARIA, K. SIVAKUMAR, J. A. JOHNSON, G.V. GOPI & P. SATHIYASELVAM

NOTEBOOK
New breeding records of Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis and Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus at the northern limit of their Asian range WIELAND HEIM, FRIEDRICH EIDAM & SERGEI M. SMIRENSKI

FIELD STUDY
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus: first breeding record in Sri Lanka SAMPATH S. SENEVIRATNE, VIMUKTHI WEERATUNGA, THILAK JAYARATNE & DEVAKA WEERAKOON

LITTLE-KNOWN AREA
Obi, North Moluccas, Indonesia: a visitor’s guide to finding the endemics JOHN C. MITTERMEIER, H. EDEN W. COTTEE-JONES, JONATHAN DAVID KENNEDY, ANDREW HART REEVE, IRFAN ROSYADI & MARC THIBAULT

FIELD STUDY
Steller’s Sea Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus: display and copulation in early spring EUGENE POTAPOV, IRINA UTEKHINA & MICHAEL McGRADY

FIELD STUDY
Firethroat Calliope pectardens and Blackthroat C. obscura: notes on winter plumages and habitats PHILIP D. ROUND & PETER CLEMENT

FIELD STUDY
Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes breeds in suburban Shanghai, China ANGUS R. LAMONT

NOTEBOOK
White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis in Sichuan, China JIAWEI WU, DAVID S. WILCOVE, SCOTT K. ROBINSON & GEORGE POWELL

NOTEBOOK
A new record of Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus in Goa and an update on its distribution in India HANNE ERIKSEN, JENS ERIKSEN, JAYANTHI VICTOR & REGINALD VICTOR

NOTEBOOK
Possible breeding of Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus in north-east Sichuan, China ROYA KAMBIN, SID FRANCIS, PETER A. H. SAMUELS & BELLA SUNTIM WRAY

NOTEBOOK
Notes on the diet of the Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis ZHU LEI, YANG XIAO-NONG, HAO GUANG, LIU TIAN-TIAN, DAI ZI-YUE & SUN YUE-HUA

PROJECT REPORT
Pioneering bird ringing-capacity building in Sairopa, Great Himalayan National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India FRANCIS BUNER, SAT PAL DHIMAN, TIM WALKER & DEVINDER DHADWAL

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRDS
The Philippine ‘ground warblers’ ROBERT HUTCHINSON & ABDELHAMID BIZID

PIONEER OF ASIAN ORNITHOLOGY
Colonel John Biddulph 1840–1921 JIRÍ HRUBÝ

FIELD STUDY
Trapping and ringing Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes, Muraviovka Park, Amur region, Far East Russia LÁSZLÓ BOZÓ & WIELAND HEIM

NOTEBOOK
New avifaunal records for Hainan island, China 2003–2013 LU GANG, LI FEI, LEE KWOK SHING, CHAN BOSCO PUI LOK & SUNG YIK HEI

NOTEBOOK
White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa, a new species for Greater Sundas and Wallacea KAMA JAYA SHAGIR & MUHAMMAD IQBAL

NOTEBOOK
More on Borneo’s ‘Spectacled’ Flowerpecker COMPILED BY BRIAN SYKES & TIM LOSEBY

NOTEBOOK
New records from Buton Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia THOMAS MARTIN, SEÁN KELLY, GRADEN FROESE, JEDEDIAH BRODIE, YENI MULYANI & DAVID KELLY

COUNTRY FIRSTS
Streak-throated Swallow Hirundo fluvicola: first record for China COLM MOORE & PAUL HOLT

Silver Oriole Oriolus mellianus: first record for Vietnam FLORIAN KLINGEL & SIMON P. MAHOOD

First record of Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus in Bangladesh OMAR SHAHADAT & SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY

A record of Japanese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus xanthodryas in Thailand PHILIP D. ROUND, ANDREW J. PIERCE, CHUKIAT NUALSRI & WANGWORN SANKAMETHAWEE

First record of Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor for Palau: an identification challenge GLENN MCKINLAY

Caught on camera in the field

From the field

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

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