BirdingASIA 42

BirdingASIA 42

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Flame-templed Babbler Dasycrotapha speciosa, Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines, by Floyd Bermejo

3 BirdingASIA brie!ngs

5 Conservation Fund

12 Review: Birds of China. By Liu Yang & Chen Shuihua.

14 CONSERVATION UPDATE
The Vietnam Pheasant Recovery Programme: reintroducing a species after 100 years under human care
NIGEL J. COLLAR, JAN DAMS, RIK DAMS, DANG GIA TUNG, SIMON D. DOWELL, JONATHAN C. EAMES, JO GREGSON, KATHARINA HERRMANN, LE TRONG TRAI, JESSICA LEE, SARAH PATTERSON, PHAM TUAN ANH, LUDO PINCEEL, GARY WARD & VERONIKA ZAHRADNÍCKOVÁ

26 LITTLE KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Occurrences of the little-known Umber Flycatcher Muscicapa (williamsoni) umbrosa outside Borneo
INGKAYUT SA"AR, WICH’YANAN LIMPARUNGPATTHANAKIJ, DING LI YONG, KANG WOEI ONG, RONGRONG ANGKAEW, CHOONG LIUNG CHIN, AYUWAT JEARWATTANAKANOK, WANGWORN SANKAMETHAWEE, DAVID N. BAKEWELL & JAMES A. EATON

37 CONSERVATION UPDATE
From capture to conservation: strategies combatting the unsustainable parrot trade in Indonesia and the Philippines
SHELBY Q. W. WEE, ARIANA LOEHR, BENNY SIREGAR, ARLIE ENDONILA, KEANU SITJAR & R. SERRANO

45 TAXONOMIC UPDATE
Taxonomic changes proposed and inferred for Asian birds in 2023
ALEX J. BERRYMAN, NIGEL J. COLLAR & PAUL F. DONALD

57 CONSERVATION UPDATE
Community empowerment for bird conservation in Jatimulyo village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
IRFAN ROSYADI, AFRIZAL NURHIDAYAD, ARIF RUDIYANTO, PANTIATI, ASMAN A. PURWANTO, SUNGKONO, ACHMAD SYAIHU RIFAI, KELIK SUPARNO & YUSUF E. PRASETYO

62 PHOTOSPOT
The Robsonius genus of ‘ground warblers’
ROBERT HUTCHINSON

64 CONSERVATION UPDATE
A grassroots conservation approach: Bali Myna population increase and conservation on Nusa Penida, Indonesia
PRAMUDYA WISNU WICAKSONO SUGIYO & DAVID DONATO

72 NOTEBOOK
Revisiting the nesting of White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis in Dun Bang village, Kachin State, Myanmar
LAY WIN & THIHA ZAW

76 NOTEBOOK
A new sighting of Spectacled Flowerpecker Dicaeum dayakorum—the first in Sabah (Malaysia) for 10 years
MIGUEL LURGI, LEWIS FERGUSON & JOSEPH LIDGETT

78 LITTLE KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Cream-eyed Bulbul Pycnonotus pseudosimplex: cryptic Borneo endemic or hiding in plain sight?
JAMES A. EATON, AYUWAT JEARWATTANAKANOK, INGKAYUT SA"AR, BAS VAN BALEN#& WILBUR GOH

85 NOTEBOOK
Surveys of threatened birds in the Kyon Ka Pyin–Tap Seik Community Conservation Area, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, with a particular focus on the Critically Endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola
THET ZAW NAING, LAY WIN, KYAW ZAY YA, NAY MYO SHWE, SEIN MYINT, YE HTIKE SOE & WIN KO OO

98 From the !eld