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PALLAVI NATH, SANTANU CHAKRABARTI & SUPRATIM MUKHERJEE`
Breeding biology of the Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula, Bengal Bush Lark Mirafra assamica and Paddyfield Pipit Anthus rufulus in agricultural fields of West Bengal, India 1
A MOHAMED SAMSOOR ALI, S RAMESH KUMAR & PR ARUN
Selection of culvert pipes for nesting by the Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica in Gujarat, India 9
LUH PEK YUNI, NIGEL J COLLAR, ANDRI NUGROHO, STUART J MARSDEN, MAS U SARMAWI & THOMAS M SQUIRES
Breeding productivity in a reintroduced population of the Critically Endangered Bali Myna Leucopsar rothschildi 16
KAR-SIN KATHERINE LEUNG, CHI-YEUNG CHOI, NIGEL A CLARK, TAO HE, JONATHAN MARTINEZ, XIAOTONG REN, LE XIANG, WENJIE XUE & RHYS E GREEN
A closed-population mark-resighting estimate of the number of Spoon-billed Sandpipers Calidris pygmaea at Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong province, China, during the boreal winter 22
HAE-MIN SEO, EUN-JEONG KIM & CHAN-RYUL PARK
Regional differences in the song characteristics of Pallas’s Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus in north-east Asia 29
JELAINE L GAN & CARMELA P ESPAÑOLA
Road transect surveys and mapping of forest raptor communities in Luzon, Philippines 34
ANWARUDDIN CHOUDHURY
Bird records from Barak Valley region, Assam, north-east India 41
HANOM BASHARI, MAX W LELA, ALFONS PATANDUNG, DINI RAHMANITA, IWAN HUNOWU, ELISABET M PURASTUTI, DANNY A ROGI, HERMAN TEGUH, AGUNG T HERMAWAN, SUPRIYANTO & RICHARD A NOSKE
Two decades of managing Maleo Macrocephalon maleo reproduction at Tambun, North Sulawesi and its population estimates within the Bogani Nani Wartabone landscape 59
ABHIJEET BAYANI
Nesting ecology and anti-predation behaviour of Indian Courser Cursorius coromandelicus in central India 68
KIM CHYE LIM, CHONG LEONG PUAN, SWEE YIAN LIM, AUN TIAH LIM, OON TEIK LEE, SWEE SENG KHOO, MARK MENG YONG NG & CAROLINE BEE GEOK HO
Magnitude, timing and flight behaviour of migratory raptors on southbound passage over Taiping, Peninsular Malaysia, in 2009 and 2010 79
MOHD FAUZI JAINI, ROSLI RAMLI & EARL OF CRANBROOK
Selection of nesting sites and nesting behaviour of Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii on Mantanani Besar Island, Sabah 86
THET ZAW NAING, NAING LIN, PYAE PHYO AUNG, HTET LIN KYAW, NYAN LIN, LAY WIN & THAUNG HTUT
Nest surveys and conservation of the Sarus Crane Antigone antigone sharpii in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar 93
ROBERT O HUTCHINSON, DESMOND ALLEN, ADRIAN M CONSTANTINO, GEOFFREY E DOBBS, ARNE E JENSEN & CHRISTIAN PEREZ
New bird records from the Philippines, 2015−2021 100
JEAN HENRI M ORACION, LEANDRO S CABRERA, ESTEVEN THEODORE A NACAR, ABNER A BUCOL, CHRIS J CHAFER & JOSE ALBERTO C SEÑAGAN
Notes on the distribution and behaviour of the Negros Striped Babbler Zosterornis nigrorum in Cuernos de Negros, Philippines 113
MATTHEW R HALLEY
A new subspecies of Black-headed Tailorbird Orthotomus nigriceps (Cisticolidae) and clarification of age-related plumage sequences 119
ULMAR GRAFE, JUSTIN JEFFREY & JERRY SIA HOW WONG
First description of the nest, egg and nestling of Bonaparte's Nightjar Caprimulgus concretus from a kerangas forest in Brunei 125
WICH’YANAN LIMPARUNGPATTHANAKIJ, RONGRONG ANGKAEW, CHUKIAT NUALSRI, AYUWAT JEARWATTANAKANOK, SOMKIAT PAKAPINYO, VATTIKORN SOPHONRAT, CHUENCHOM HANSASUTA, KASET SUTASHA, KHEMTHONG TONSAKULRUNGRUANG & PHILIP D ROUND
Abundance and timing of non-raptorial diurnal landbird migrants passing through Khao Dinsor, southern Thailand, in autumn 2015–2018 129
Journal of Asian Ornithology Instructions to authors 140