BirdingASIA 15

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First images in the wild of Blackthroat Luscinia obscura, Asia’s most enigmatic robin WEI QIAN & HE YI

First breeding record of the Drummer Rail Habroptila wallacii HANOM BASHARI & BAS VAN BALEN

Observations of a family of Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata in Singapore FELIX WONG

Bird on the edge: can the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus be saved? DEBBIE PAIN, RHYS GREEN & NIGEL CLARK

Black-chinned Monarch Monarcha boanensis still survives on its tiny island home JAMES EATON

Kolyma delta, north-eastern Siberia, Russia: birding at the Arctic end of Asia JOCHEN TAMM

Brood-host record for Oriental (Sunda) Cuckoo Cuculus (saturatus) lepidus in the Cameron Highlands, Peninsular Malaysia DAVID BAKEWELL, LIM KIM CHYE & SHAHRUL ANUAR MOHD SAH

Notes on a new brood-host of Drongo Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris in the Thai-Malay Peninsula LIM KIM SENG

Notes on the behaviour and diet of Elegant Pitta Pitta elegans maria CHRIS GOODDIE

A wintering Chinese Crested Tern Sterna bernsteini in eastern Indonesia CRAIG ROBSON

Fruit orchards, farmers and birds: protecting the Vernal Hanging Parrots Loriculus vernalis of Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand KITTIPON BOURANASOMPOP & ROBERT DECANDIDO

White-throated Wren Babbler Rimator pasquieri: Vietnam’s rarest endemic passerine? JONATHAN C. EAMES & SIMON MAHOOD

Notes on the nesting of the Red-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis amictus in Peninsular Malaysia CON FOLEY & YONG DING LI

Bird observations in the south Moluccas, Indonesia, in 2009 with new migration, breeding and altitudinal records PETER S. LANSLEY, CHRIS LESTER & STUART DASHPER

A description of the nest and eggs of Przevalski’s Redstart Phoenicurus alashanicus ANDREW DIXON, CARL ASHFORD & PAUL STAFFORD

First record of Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus nesting on an electricity pylon, near Sri Dungargarh, Bikaner district, Rajasthan, India HARKIRAT SINGH SANGHA

Records of the Spot-bellied Eagle Owl Bubo nipalensis in Madhya Pradesh, India ANIRUDDHA MAJUMDER, K. SANKAR & B. R. SYKES

PHOTOSPOT
Oriental Honey-buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Silvery Pigeon Columba argentina on Simeuluë and the Batu islands, Sumatra, Indonesia JAMES EATON & JONATHAN ROSSOUW

Nepal Wren Babbler Pnoepyga immaculata: 25 years on SIMON HARRAP

A survey of the avifaunal diversity of Samanala Nature Reserve, Sri Lanka, by the Young Zoologists’ Association of Sri Lanka D. M. S. SURANJAN KARUNARATHNA, A. A. THASUN AMARASINGHE & IMESH NUWAN BANDARA

Nagaland: an enigma B.R. SYKES

COUNTRY FIRSTS
Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo: first record for Sri Lanka MÅNS GRUNDSTEN

First record of Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata for Vietnam PETER BIJLMAKERS & HORST KOEHLER

Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus: first record for Mongolia RICHARD READING, AXEL BRÄUNLICH & HENRY MIX

Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus: first records for Mongolia RICHARD READING, STEPHEN HARRIS & AXEL BRÄUNLICH

First record of Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus from Bhutan JOSH ENGEL

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

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