BirdingAsia 24

Contents

Editorial

BirdingASIA briefings

OBC in Action – Conservation Fund & Bertrand Smythies Fund

Review

Letters to the Editors

CONSERVATION ALERT
Helmeted Hornbills Rhinoplax vigil and the ivory trade: the crisis that came out of nowhere N. J. COLLAR

CONSERVATION ALERT
Pittas for a pittance: observations on the little known illegal trade in Pittidae in west Indonesia CHRIS R. SHEPHERD, JAMES A. EATON & SERENE C. L. CHNG

REDISCOVERY
Rediscovery of Dusky Eagle Owl Bubo coromandus klossii in Thailand INGKAYUT SA-AR, JARUN KUNNARONG & BUNYARIT DECHOCHAI

LITTLE-KNOWN AREA
Frontiers of the Philippines: Eastern Visayas JOSEPH TAYLOR, EIRES MATE, ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON & JAMES A. EATON

ID FORUM
A photographic record of Firethroat Calliope pectardens wintering in northern Thailand with a reassessment of a specimen record of Blackthroat C. obscura WORAPHOT BUNKHWAMDI, SONTAYA MANAWATTANA, RUNGSRIT KANJANAVANIT & PHILIP D. ROUND

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD – continued
More on the Asian Rosy Finch Leucosticte arctoa brunneonucha: first record from Mongolia ANDREAS BUCHHEIM

CONSERVATION NEWS
Discovery of a Relict Gull Larus relictus breeding colony in Mongolia ANDREAS BUCHHEIM, KIRSTEN KRÄTZEL, JÖRG LANGENBERG, THOMAS LANGENBERG, ARMIN SCHNEIDER & SÖNKE TAUTZ

CONSERVATION NEWS
Boom or bust? Ten thousand Relict Gulls Larus relictus: record numbers seen at Hangu, Tianjin, China COMPILED BY BRIAN SYKES

CONSERVATION REPORT
Ornithological survey in Dornod province, eastern Mongolia YANN MUZIKA, VIVIAN FU, TERRY TOWNSHEND & YAT-TUNG YU

TAXONOMIC REVIEW
Notable taxonomic changes proposed for Asian birds in 2014 T. P. INSKIPP & N. J. COLLAR

LITTLE-KNOWN AREA
Avifauna of Great Nicobar Island—a photo album JAINY KURIAKOSE

CONSERVATION NEWS
The troubled Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri: cause for a little optimism? RICHARD HEARN

CONSERVATION UPDATE
Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri: breeding in central Yangtze region, China LU QUN, LI SICHUN & TAO XUDONG

CONSERVATION UPDATE
Discovery of a new breeding site of the White-eared Night Heron Gorsachius magnificus in northern Vietnam LE MANH HUNG

IMPORTANT BREEDING RECORD
The first breeding record of Fulvous Whistlingduck Dendrocygna bicolor in Sri Lanka TARA WIKRAMANAYAKE

IMPORTANT BREEDING RECORDS
Notes on nesting Bristled Grassbird Chaetornis striata, Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh M. MONIRUL H. KHAN, TANIA KHAN, ALI AHMED & TANVIR A. SHOVON

BIRDWATCHERS IN ACTION
Project Southern Crossing 2014: first observations of autumn raptor migration at Sarangani, Mindanao, Philippines ALEX M. TIONGCO, MARIA TERESA A. CERVERO, ADRIAN M. CONSTANTINO & MARIA KATRINA C. CONSTANTINO

CONSERVATION REPORT
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea head-starting programme in 2015 REBECCA LEE, ROLAND A. DIGBY & PAVEL S. TOMKOVICH

LITTLE-KNOWN AREA
Birds of Siberia: the River Lena from Ust-Kutto Yakutsk LÁSZLÓ BOZÓ

NOTEBOOK
Natuna Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheelanatunensis: first photographic record in the wild MUHAMMAD IQBAL

NOTEBOOK
Colour aberrations in Indian birds ANIL MAHABAL, R.M.SHARMA & AMIT SAYYED

NOTEBOOK
Two unusual nest-sites of the Taiwan Whistling Thrush Myophonus insularis: part of a trend towards urbanisation? BRUNO A. WALTHER

NOTEBOOK
Austen’s Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni in Barail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India MOHOMMAD MIRAJ HUSSAIN, MONSOON JYOTI GOGOI, BISWAJYOTI BIKOMIA DEORI, HILLOLJYOTI SINGHA & PANNA DEB

NOTEBOOK
Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher Cyornis tickelli aeeatsa Sri Lankan shrub frog DINESH GABADAGE, PALINDA PERERA, MADHAVA BOTEJUE & SAMEERA KARUNARATHNA

NOTEBOOK
Asian Woollyneck Ciconia episcopus breeding in western Rajasthan,India HIMMAT SINGH

CONSERVATION ALERT
Looking at online birdtrading in Indonesia; a case study from South Sumatra MUHAMMAD IQBAL

COUNTRY FIRSTS
Chinese Pond Heron Ardeo labacchus: an addition to the avifauna of Pakistan BABAR KHAN, EJAZ HUSSAIN, TAEJ MUNDKUR, SAEED ABBAS & GAREE KHAN

First record of Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis from Indonesia and South-East Asia at Serangan Island, Benoa harbour, Bali, Indonesia SEPPO HJERPPE, STEVE JONES, MAX VAKIALA & COLIN R. TRAINOR

The first record of Common Swift Apus apus for Thailand and South-East Asia ANDREW J. PIERCE, CHUENCHOM HANSASUTA & KASET SUTASHA

Three species new to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India C. SIVAPERUMAN, G. GOKULAKRISHNAN, J. DINESH & K. VENKATARAMAN

First record of Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis from Bangladesh SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY & NAZIM UDDIN PRINCE

Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops near Waingapu, Sumba, Lesser Sunda Islands, the first record for Indonesia PETER ERICSSON

From the field

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