BirdingASIA 13 June 2010: contents

• ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Malaysian Nature Society (MNS)—celebrating 70 years of conserving birds and their habitats in Malaysia
  MOHD RAFI KUDUS & YEAP CHIN AIK
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• NEW RECORDS FOR MALAYSIA The work of the Malaysian Nature Society-Bird Conservation Council Records Committee (MNS-BCC RC) and updates to the status of birds in Malaysia
  COMPILED BY DAVID BAKEWELL ON BEHALF OF MNS-BCC RC
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• LITTLE-KNOWN AREA Sarawak—a neglected birding destination in Malaysia
  RONALD ORENSTEIN, ANTHONY WONG, NAZERI ABGHANI, DAVID BAKEWELL, JAMES EATON, YEO SIEW TECK & YONG DING LI
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• FIRST RECORD: MALAYSIA Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis: first record for Malaysia
  ADAM BOWLEY
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• LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Brown-banded Rail Lewinia mirifica at Dalton Pass, Philippines
  DESMOND ALLEN
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• LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot Micropsitta bruijnii on Seram and Buru
  THOMAS ARNDT & YAN E. PERSULESSY
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• LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Ceylon Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis in south India
  TAMÁS ZALAI, SZILVIA MOLNÁR & ANDRÁS VASAS
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• BIRDS AND PEOPLE Bird hides and water holes: a model conservation project near Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand
  KITTIPON BOURANASOMPOP & ROBERT DECANDIDO
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• BIRDS AND PEOPLE Swiftlet farming comes to Cambodia
  COLIN POOLE
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• FIELD STUDY Study of the breeding behaviour of Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera around Dhaka, Bangladesh
  MOHAMMOD FOYSAL
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• BIRD TO WATCH First observation and subsequent records of Christmas Island Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi in the Philippines with notes on its occurrence and distribution
  ARNE ERIK JENSEN & JOSE MA. LORENZO TAN
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• BIRD TO WATCH Jankowski’s Bunting Emberiza jankowskii: the next species to become extinct in east Asia?
  MARTIN HALE
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• BIRD TO WATCH River terns: is the Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda heading to oblivion?
  BRIAN SYKES
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• PHOTOSPOT Spotlight on tesias
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• SPECIAL REPORT Notes and observations on primate predation by forest raptors in Asia
  YONG DING LI
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• NOTEBOOK Breeding plumage Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea in Taiwan during the northern winter
  CIN-TY LEE & YU-YE WEN
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• NOTEBOOK Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris: a regular spring passage migrant through Hong Kong
  GEOFF WELCH & YAT-TUNG YU
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• NOTEBOOK Recent records of birds trapped in spiders’ webs in India
  RAJU KASAMBE, GOPAL THOSAR, HIMANSHU RATHORE, ADESH SHIVKAR & DIPU SASISHUIHUA CHEN
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• ASIAN ENIGMA First observations of Ninox (novaeseelandiae) rotiensis on Roti island, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia
  PHILIPPE VERBELEN
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• CONSERVATION WATCH Waterbird conservation in the Republic of Korea: the truth about ‘green growth’ and the ‘green new deal’
  NIAL MOORES, ANDREAS KIM & PARK MEENA
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• Caught in Camera in the field:
  Indian Skimmer in Tamil Nadhu (N. VIKAS MADHAV and D. NAGARAJAN), Grey-necked Bunting in Sri Lanka (C.D. KALUTHOTA, D. SAMARASINGHE, D. DE SILVA and H. DE SILVA).
  
• ASIAN ENIGMA Conservation of Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Garrulax courtoisi in Wuyuan, Jiangxi, and the search for ‘lost’ populations in Yunnan and Guangxi, China
  ROGER WILKINSON & HE FEN-QI
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• ASIAN ENIGMAS A further odyssey in search of the little-known owls of Indonesia
  PHILIPPE VERBELEN & BRAM DEMEULEMEESTER
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