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Forktail, number 23, August 2007, contents:

• AARON LANG, MARY ANNE BISHOP and ALEC LE SUEUR
  An annotated list of birds wintering in the Lhasa river watershed and Yamzho Yumco, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
  p 1.
• ANTERO LINDHOLM and ANDREAS LINDÉN
  Some notes on the distribution and songs of two Oriental Cuckoo taxa, Cuculus (saturatus) saturatus and Cuculus (saturatus) optatus.
  p 12.
• ASHOK VERMA and VIBHU PRAKASH
  Winter roost habitat use by Eurasian Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus in and around Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India.
  p 17.
• JÉRÔME FUCHS, ALICE CIBOIS, J. W. DUCKWORTH, ROLAND EVE,
  WILLIAM G. ROBICHAUD, TED TIZARD and DIRK VAN GANSBERGHE
  Birds of Phongsaly province and the Nam Ou river, Laos.
  p 22.
• LAURENT MOLARD, MARC KÉRY and CLAYTON M. WHITE
  Estimating the resident population size of Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus in Peninsular Malaysia.
  p 87.
• LEE KWOK SHING, CHAN BOSCO PUI LOK, LU GANG and SU WEN-BA
  Wetland birds of Hainan Island, China: results from winter waterbird surveys 2003–2007.
  p 92.
• NIAL MOORES
  Selected records from Socheong Island, South Korea.
  p 102.
• NICHAYA PRADITSUP, AMARA NAKSATHIT and PHILIP ROUND
  Observations on the Siamese Fireback Lophura diardi in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
  p 125.
• P. R. SWEET, J. W. DUCKWORTH, T. J. TROMBONE and L. ROBIN
  The Hall collection of birds from Wonsan, central Korea, in spring 1903.
  p 129.
• R. CHARLES ANDERSON
  New records of birds from the Maldives.
  p 135.
• S. HARSHA K. SATISCHANDRA, ENOKA P. KUDAVIDANAGE, SARATH W. KOTAGAMA and EBEN GOODALE
  The benefits of joining mixed-species flocks for Greater Racket-tailed Drongos Dicrurus paradiseus.
  p 145.

Rufous-throated White-eye Forktail 23 cover (Robert Hutchinson)

• A. TOWNSEND PETERSON
  Three new records from Lubang island, Philippines
  p 149.
• ABDUL JAMIL URFI, THANGARASU MEGANATHAN and ABDUL KALAM
  Nesting ecology of the Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala at Sultanpur National Park, Haryana, India.
  p 150.
• ANWARUDDIN CHOUDHURY
  White-winged Duck Cairina (=Asarcornis) scutulata and Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus: two new country records for Bhutan
  p 153.
• COLIN R. TRAINOR and PEDRO J. LEITÃO
  Further significant bird records from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste (East Timor)
  p 155.
• FRANK E. RHEINDT and ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON
  New island records and new elevational records of birds from South Maluku
  p 158.
• K. S. GOPI SUNDAR, ARPIT DEOMURARI, YASHODHAN BHATIA
  and S. PRASANTH NARAYANAN
  Records of Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus breeding pairs fledging four chicks.
  p 161.
• PETER CUTTER, PASSANAN BOONTUA and KRIANGSAK SRI-BUAROD
  A recent record of Storm’s Stork Ciconia stormi in Thailand.
  p 163.
• KANDARP KATHJU
  Observations of unusual clutch size, renesting and egg concealment by Sarus Cranes Grus antigone in
  Gujarat, India.
  p 165.
• MARK MALLALIEU
  Greater Spotted Eagles Aquila clanga in central Thailand.167
• Y. H. CHAN, M. ZAFIRAH, M. CREMADES, M. DIVET, C. H. R. TEO and S. C. NG
  Infanticide-cannibalism in the Oriental Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros albirostris.
  p 170.
• PIERRE VAN DER WIELEN
  Chestnut-cheeked Starling Sturnus philippensis: new for the Indian subcontinent.
  p 173.
• ROLAND EVE
  First record of Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus in Lao PDR.
  p 174.
• R. PROBST, M. PAVLIÈEV and R. SCHMID
  Differences in the diet of three Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus pairs nesting in Chukotka, north-east Russia.
  p 175.
• BAILEY D. MCKAY and YI-WEN PENG
  First likely breeding record of Yellow-billed Grosbeak Eophona migratoria for Kinmen Island, Taiwan.
  p 177.
• CHRIS R. SHEPHERD
  Breeding records and observations of the Little Egret Egretta garzetta in Peninsular Malaysia.
  p 178.
• HARKIRAT SINGH SANGHA and RISHAD NAOROJI
  New and significant records of birds in Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India.
  p 179.
• NICOLANTONIO AGOSTINI and UGO MELLONE
  Does competition in wintering grounds affect migration strategies of Oriental Honey-buzzards breeding in Japan?
  p 182.
• ROBERT HUTCHINSON, JAMES EATON, BRAM DEMEULEMEESTER and FRANK E. RHEINDT
  Observations of Flores Scops Owl Otus alfredi on Flores, Indonesia, with a first description of its vocalisations.
  p 184.

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